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Secure at every step

Ship secure applications within the GitHub flow: Stay ahead of security issues, leverage the security community’s expertise, and use open source securely.

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Get security feedback with every git push

Scan code as it’s created. Get accurate, actionable security reviews within the developer workflow.

Secure your code

See security issues in your pull requests as part of your code review process. Prevent new vulnerabilities from making it onto main.

Find high-priority, exploitable security issues in your code. View your exposure across your codebases and focus on the vulnerabilities that matter.

Create custom queries to easily find and prevent variants of new security concerns. Use them alongside the 2,000+ CodeQL queries from GitHub and the community. Integrate third party scanning engines to view results from all your security tools in a single interface. Export results through a single API.

Secure your code

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Putting DevSecOps into practice with code scanning

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Finding security vulnerabilities and errors in your code

Respond quickly to vulnerabilities in your supply chain

Understand your supply chain and how dependencies impact the security of your code.

Secure your supply chain

Easily see what dependencies have changed in a pull request and stay secure.

Automatically monitor your dependencies for known vulnerabilities, and apply suggested fixes with automated pull requests.

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How GitHub’s dependency graph is generated

Keep secrets out of your code

GitHub watches your repositories and notifies you of secrets issued by 45+ leading secret providers.

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Achieving DevSecOps maturity with a developer-first, community-driven approach

Build on a secure foundation

Our team goes beyond industry standards to secure GitHub. And delivers features that help you do the same. Configure role-based access, auditing, and permissions to turn security best practices into better development processes.

Be part of the world’s largest security community.

Understand your dependence on the software supply chain, and how you can contribute back.

Collaborate with the security community on GitHub and with the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)

XML external entity (XXE) processing CVE-2019-10782 • Jonathan Leitschuh

Incorrect use of X509_check_host CVE-2020-9432 • lua-openssl • Agustin Gianni

Prototype pollution in mpath package CVE-2018-16490 • Cristian-Alexandru Staicu

Report security issues, share security knowledge and grow with the community. Contribute to open source code scanning queries written by GitHub and leading security researchers.

Meet the GitHub Security Lab

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