Accelerate security adoption in your organization

GitHub's Advanced Security Enforcer is a new GitHub Action designed to automate and streamline the adoption of GitHub Advanced Security features like code scanning across large organizations. Developed initially for a government agency, this tool now open-sourced, automatically configures code scanning for newly created repositories, helping organizations identify security vulnerabilities in supported programming languages such as C/C++, Java, C#, Python, Go, JavaScript, and TypeScript. By integrating seamlessly into the GitHub workflow, the Advanced Security Enforcer ensures compliance without the need for template repositories, as it opens pull requests containing necessary configurations when new repositories are created. Users need to set up specific repository secrets to enable the action, which benefits from a higher rate limit when interfacing with the GitHub API. Developers are encouraged to contribute to its ongoing enhancement, with a supporting guide available for those interested in participating.