Why GitHub has become the new identity blind spot  and what we’re doing about it

A few weeks ago, Unosecur’s engineering and product teams sat down virtually with the head of security at a fast‑growing SaaS company.

His team had just stared down a near‑miss: an API key, pushed in haste to a private GitHub repository, had made its way into an infostealer’s collection pipeline. The attacker never needed to break in; they almost logged in with a perfectly valid credential.

If you secure modern software supply chains, you’ve seen this movie before. The breach‑of‑the‑month rarely starts with a zero‑day. It starts with an overlooked secret, an orphaned bot, or an over‑privileged account that no one remembered to clean up.

Hundreds of such stories have shaped the GitHub Integration we’ve announced today at Unosecur. https://www.unosecur.com/announcement/unosecur-launches-native-github-integration-to-eliminate-identity-blind-spots. In this detailed advisory, we have unpacked the hidden risks we keep seeing inside GitHub and shown how our new module helps you fix them before they hit the headlines.

Traditional CIEM tools stop at the cloud console. Classic IAM teams focus on HR joiner‑mover‑leaver workflows. Neither fully sees what’s inside GitHub, where credentials originate and where code is signed for production.

Why quarterly reviews aren’t enough anymore

• Velocity: Git pushes, commits and merges happen in minutes, not quarters.
• Multiplicity: One microservice might spawn five bots, three tokens and two webhooks—none tracked by HR.
• Human nature: “I’ll remove that access later” turns into “nobody remembers.”

Periodic audits catch stale access months later—if ever. Attackers exploit the gap today.

Introducing Unosecur’s native GitHub Integration

Building on our agentless CIEM and GenAI‑powered policy engine, the GitHub Integration brings continuous identity security directly into the developer workflow.

Continuous posture management

• Inventory every identity – human, bot, service account, token, secret – within minutes of connecting via Github App authentication.
• Detect drift in real time: orphaned members, shadow admins, non‑MFA logins, SSO bypasses, over‑broad roles, outdated tokens.
• Map ownership to HR and cloud identities so every key has an accountable owner, or gets revoked.

How it works in under ten minute

1. Connect: Authorise Unosecur via GitHub OAuth with read‑only scopes. No agents, no runner plugins.
2. Discover: The platform maps every user, and repo, then benchmarks them against least‑privilege policies.
3. Detect: Real‑time detection of login anomalies.
4. Remediate: Revoke access to GitHub and open a Jira ticket.

All without slowing your pipelines or asking developers to change their daily flow.

The breach that hurts most doesn’t smash the door; it swipes the pass

Security teams struggle to get a unified view of user access across GitHub and other enterprise tools. Our GitHub Integration is the right step towards ensuring that.

Ready to see every key, token, and entitlement hiding in your GitHub organisation?
Reach out to our team at sales@unosecur.com.

Stay aware. Stay secure.

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