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Building Secure CI Pipelines Using GitHub Actions

Scott Gerlach | Jul 29, 2020

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Last week, I had the privilege of joining Sherif Koussa, Founder and CEO of Software Secured , to chat about ensuring security in production applications by adding application security testing into the CI pipeline.

Watch the video below for details on how to add security checks into CI using GitHub Actions , including:

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
Secrets Detection

For more details on instrumenting StackHawk with GitHub Actions, check out our documentation .

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