GitHub cleared 20k+ secret scans in nine months with a concrete remediation playbook
GitHub faced over 20,000 secret‑scanning alerts across 15,000 repos and reduced them to zero in nine months by triaging noise, focusing on active credentials, and building cross‑team remediation workflows that spanned code, tickets, and bug‑bounty reports. The playbook offers concrete steps any org can adopt to tame secret‑leakage.