6 essential GitHub security settings maintainers should enable
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Joseph Katsioloudes
Summary
GitHub Security Lab provides maintainers with six free security settings that can be configured in under 30 minutes to improve project security posture. The settings include enabling private vulnerability reporting, using Dependabot for dependency updates, requiring signed commits, enabling secret scanning, configuring branch protection rules, and setting up code scanning. The article emphasizes that while these settings won't make a project unhackable, they close common attack vectors and automate security workflows.
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Most maintainers we talk to weren't hired to be security engineers.
These six free settings will not make your project unhackable. Nothing will. What they will do is close the easy doors.
Ignoring a project's security settings completely will lead into leaving a lot in the table in terms of automation and scalability, leading into a poor security posture.
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