Summary
The goal of this module was to help you understand how to protect your GitHub organization from security risks and what to do in the event of a sensitive data exposure.
You learned how to:
- Create documentation to outline security guidelines and provide useful information for collaborators
- Set permissions and rules
- Manage repository rulesets
- Automate processes that prevent security risks
- Respond to sensitive data exposure
- Export audit log records and git events
You reviewed GitHub's basic security tools including the documents and settings available to secure your GitHub organization when working with collaborators.
This module explained how to create a new GitHub repository in a way that limits technical debt and risk. You also learned how to use built-in GitHub tools to manage user permissions and prevent unauthorized access.
Learn more
The following are links related to the information covered in this module:
- Adding a security policy to your repository.
- Creating a default community health file
- About GitHub Security Advisories
- Creating a security advisory
- GitHub security features
- Securing your repository
- Securing your organization
- Managing rulesets for a repository
- Ignoring files
- Best practices for preventing data leaks in your organization
- Reviewing the audit log for your organization
- Audit log events for your organization
- Reference for working with an audit log using the GraphQL API.
- Reference for working with an audit log using a Rest API.
- git-filter-repo Manual Page