GitHub Advanced Security: CodeQL, Dependabot, and Secret Scanning in Practice
A review of GitHub Advanced Security covering CodeQL SAST, Dependabot SCA, secret scanning, and how the integrated security experience works for development teams.
Deep dives, practical guides, and incident analyses from engineers who build Safeguard. No fluff, no vendor FUD — just what you need to ship secure software.
A review of GitHub Advanced Security covering CodeQL SAST, Dependabot SCA, secret scanning, and how the integrated security experience works for development teams.
A practical guide comparing Dependabot and Renovate for automated dependency updates, covering configuration flexibility, ecosystem support, and team workflows.
In December 2022, Slack disclosed that stolen employee tokens were used to access private GitHub repositories. The breach highlighted the risks of token-based authentication in CI/CD pipelines.
Configure GitHub repository security settings for branch protection, secret scanning, dependency alerts, and code scanning.
A vulnerability in GitHub's commit signature verification allowed attackers to forge signed commits. The flaw undermined the integrity guarantees that code signing is supposed to provide.
A hands-on walkthrough for configuring automated dependency scanning in your GitHub repositories, from Dependabot alerts to custom CI workflows.
GitHub Codespaces has gone GA and is about to become the dev environment standard. Here is a close read of its security model — including what it does not solve.
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