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Application securityJuly 6, 20261 min read

6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week

These six free settings will not make your project unhackable. Nothing will. What they will do is close the easy doors. Turn these on, and your project will be meaningfully harder to attack than it was before. The post 6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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Natalie Guevara

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These six free settings will not make your project unhackable. Nothing will. What they will do is close the easy doors. Turn these on, and your project will be meaningfully harder to attack than it was before. The post 6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week appeared first on The GitHub Blog

These six free settings will not make your project unhackable. Nothing will. What they will do is close the easy doors. Turn these on, and your project will be meaningfully harder to attack than it was before. The post 6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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