Application security

Learn how to integrate and implement robust security measures directly into your software applications. With practical strategies and techniques to secure applications throughout the development lifecycle, explore secure coding practices and secure software design principles to incorporate advanced security features like encryption, authentication, and authorization. Find out how to build applications that are resilient to common security threats such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and other vulnerabilities, ensuring your software remains secure and trustworthy. Learn about emerging trends and technologies in application security, such as generative AI and machine learning for thread detection, zero-trust architecture, and the importance of DevOps and DevSecOps practices.

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AppSec is harder than you think. Here’s how AI can help.

In practice, shifting left has been more about shifting the burden rather than the ability. But AI is bringing its promise closer to reality. Here’s how.

GitHub and the Ekoparty 2023 Capture the Flag

The GitHub Security Lab teamed up with Ekoparty once again to create some challenges for its yearly Capture the Flag competition!

Scaling vulnerability management across thousands of services and more than 150 million findings

Learn about how we run a scalable vulnerability management program built on top of GitHub.

Security best practices for authors of GitHub Actions

Improve your GitHub Action’s security posture by securing your source repository, protecting your maintainers, and making it easy to report security incidents.

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Application security orchestration with GitHub Advanced Security

Learn how teams can leverage the power of GitHub Advanced Security’s code scanning and GitHub Actions to integrate the right security testing tools at the right time.

Remediation made simple: Introducing new validity checks for GitHub tokens

GitHub now tells you whether GitHub tokens found by secret scanning are active so you can prioritize and escalate remediation efforts.

Leaked a secret? Check your GitHub alerts…for free

GitHub now allows you to track any leaked secrets in your public repository, for free. With secret scanning alerts, you can track and action on leaked secrets directly within GitHub.

How empowering developers helps teams ship secure software faster

AppSec expert Niroshan Rajadurai says putting developers at the center of everything will enable you to meet your security goals.

Introducing fine-grained personal access tokens for GitHub

Fine-grained personal access tokens offer enhanced security to developers and organization owners, to reduce the risk to your data of compromised tokens.

5 tips for embedding security into your workflows

Having a robust security plan is key to innovation. These tips will empower you to gain the upper hand on cyberattacks, so you can ship quickly and innovate with ease.

GitHub now publishes malware advisories in the GitHub Advisory Database

To combat the prevalence of malware in the open source ecosystem, GitHub now publishes malware occurrences in the GitHub Advisory Database. These advisories power Dependabot alerts and remain forever free and usable by the community.

Today’s most common security vulnerabilities explained

We’re taking a look at some of the most common security vulnerabilities and detailing how developers can best protect themselves.

Git Credential Manager: authentication for everyone

Ensuring secure access to your source code is more important than ever. Git Credential Manager helps make that easy.

Validate all the things: improve your security with input validation!

If there’s one habit that can make software more secure, it’s probably input validation. Here’s how to apply OWASP Proactive Control C5 (Validate All Inputs) to your code.

How the community powers GitHub Advanced Security with CodeQL queries

The GitHub Security Lab’s CodeQL bounty program fuels GitHub Advanced Security with queries written by the open source community.

How to leverage security frameworks and libraries for secure code

In this post, I’ll discuss how to apply OWASP Proactive Control C2: Leverage security frameworks and libraries.

Using GitHub’s security features to help identify Log4j exposure in your codebase

Use GitHub’s security features to assess Apache Log4j exposure and, where possible, mitigate this vulnerability within your GitHub repositories.

Blue-teaming for Exiv2: creating a security advisory process

This blog post is the first in a series about hardening the security of the Exiv2 project. My goal is to share tips that will help you harden the security of your own project.

GitHub security update: revoking weakly-generated SSH keys

On September 28, 2021, we received notice from the developer Axosoft regarding a vulnerability in a dependency of their popular git GUI client – GitKraken. An underlying issue with a dependency, called `keypair`, resulted in the GitKraken client generating weak SSH keys.