branch-protection
Safeguard articles tagged "branch-protection" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
7 articles
A Required Approval Proves a Button Was Clicked, Not That Anyone Read the Code
Branch protection requires review before merge. Your audit evidence shows one on every pull request for a year. It does not show whether any of them involved a person reading the diff, and for a meaningful share, they did not.
Your Pull Request Process Is Already Your Change Management
An auditor asks for change management evidence and the instinct is to build a change request form nobody will use. You already have the control, and it produces better evidence because it is generated by the work rather than alongside it.
Repo Security: How to Secure Your Git Repositories End to End
Repo security covers access, secrets, branch protection, dependencies, and CI/CD. Here is a practical checklist to lock down your Git repositories against the ways they actually get compromised.
Hardening CI/CD Pipelines End to End
A leaked Codecov credential let attackers read CI secrets from 23,000+ customers for two months in 2021. Here's how to close every stage of that gap.
Secure Usage of Authorized Code Repositories: A Practical Guide
Secure usage of authorized code repositories means controlling who can access source, protecting branches, scanning for secrets, and treating the repo as production infrastructure. Here is how.
How to Set Up a Secure Source Code Repository
What makes a source code repository secure, from access control and secret scanning to branch protection and dependency review, with practical defaults.
How to configure GitHub branch protection rules
A practical guide to configuring GitHub branch protection rules — required reviews, status checks, and security settings that keep your main branch safe.
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