Securing GitHub organizations

Alex Smolen
6 min readJan 15, 2022
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If your security team is concerned about supply chain risk, it’s a good idea to look at your GitHub settings. GitHub describes several security features and best practices in their documentation for account security and organization security, but this post goes beyond the documentation. It’s a step-by-step process for securing your GitHub organization.