GitHub Actions for security and compliance

GitHub Actions offer a versatile solution for automating various developer workflows beyond traditional CI/CD tasks, particularly in security and compliance. Organizations can employ actions like org-audit-action to automate auditing of repository access, providing detailed user access reports in CSV and JSON formats. Additionally, security features such as Dependabot alerts, code scanning, and license compliance can be managed through actions like ghascompliance, allowing organizations to set and enforce security policies. For ensuring end-to-end traceability, create-issue-branch and verify-linked-issue actions help in linking code changes to requirements and ensuring pull requests are associated with relevant issues. These actions streamline workflows, enhancing security and compliance, while the GitHub Marketplace offers a plethora of such automation tools to explore.