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6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week

  • Natalie Guevara--Github.blog
  • published date: 2026-07-01 15:59:33 UTC

These six free settings will not make your project unhackable. Nothing will. What they will do is close the easy doors. Turn these on, and your project will be meaningfully harder to attack than it was before. The post 6 security settings every GitHub maintai…

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> At GitHub Security Lab, we spend a lot of our week talking to maintainers. Some find the set… [+5819 chars]