Governance & compliance

Learn how to navigate the complexities of regulatory requirements and organizational policies and governance essential for building enterprise software. In today’s regulatory landscape, ensuring that your software complies with industry standards and legal requirements is crucial for avoiding penalties and maintaining a trustworthy reputation. Explore in-depth articles and tutorials with actionable tips on implementing effective governance frameworks and compliance strategies. Discover how to establish robust policies, conduct regular audits, and integrate compliance checks into your development processes. Learn how to manage data privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA, ensure accessibility compliance, and implement secure coding practices to protect sensitive information.

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Demonstrating end-to-end traceability with pull requests

Reduce developer and auditor friction involved in demonstrating compliance and maintaining end-to-end traceability by focusing your efforts around the pull request.

Ensuring compliance in developer workflows

How GitHub Enterprise ensures secure and compliant developer workflows for highly regulated industries.

Generative AI-enabled compliance for software development

Explore how generative AI may soon help enable optimizing some of the foundational components of compliance.

Level up monitoring and reporting for your enterprise

A high-quality audit log is an essential tool for enterprises to ensure compliance, maintain security, investigate issues, and promote accountability.

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Introducing self-service SBOMs

Developers and compliance teams get a new SBOM generation tool for cloud repositories.

3 ways to meet compliance needs without slowing down agility

Learn how to enable developer productivity and collaboration while staying secure and compliant. Stay compliant without slowing down your business. From security to CI/CD, automate every step of your software workflow—so your developers can stay focused on what matters most: building.

Setting the foundations for compliance

Laying the groundwork for developer-enabled compliance.

3 ways every company can get started with an open-source software strategy

The future of software development does not exist without open source. However, to maintain today’s software and create the software of the future, the largest organizations and beneficiaries of open source need to expand their collaboration with the community and help it grow.