How GitHub used secret scanning to reach inbox zero
GitHub had 20,000+ secret scanning alerts across 15,000 repositories. Here's how we separated signal from noise, built remediation workflows, and reached inbox zero in nine months. The post How GitHub used secret scanning to reach inbox zero appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
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GitHub had 20,000+ secret scanning alerts across 15,000 repositories. Here's how we separated signal from noise, built remediation workflows, and reached inbox zero in nine months. The post How GitHub used secret scanning to reach inbox zero appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
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