Security · 1h ago
GitHub slashes secret scanning alerts from 20K to zero in 9 months
GitHub faced over 20,000 secret scanning alerts across 15,000 repositories. The team built remediation workflows to separate signal from noise. They achieved inbox zero in nine months.
Meridian48 take
This is a practical case study in alert fatigue, but the real test is whether other organizations can replicate GitHub's approach without its resources.
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