GitHub DLP Remediation Guide
GitHub is a code versioning tool, which means that it preserves a full history of searchable code changes. Sensitive data can proliferate in these code changes and is not always easily discoverable. Credentials & secrets that are hard-coded in GitHub repositories pose risk if repos are leaked or accessed via social engineering attacks, as they can provide access to infrastructure, databases, and third-party APIs. Likewise, sensitive data like customer PII can end up in code repos.