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GitHub April Events

Here are the April Events brought to you by the GitHub Team.

InnerSource Community of Practice

GitHub Office Hours

Team Showcase

  • April 13th at 10AM Eastern
  • New monthly series on the second Tuesday of each month at 10AM Eastern that will highlight teams who are going through or have gone through digital transformations.
  • Team: The VA-Notify team will be our showcased team presenting on how they are leveraging the power of InnerSource across the VA.
  • Recording Link Must be on VA network to view.

Product Security Community of Practice

⭐️ Code Clean Up Workshop with GitHub Advanced Security ⭐️

This is the VA’s first ever guided hands on workshop where you will work in a training repository to learn how to clear up GitHub Advanced Security alerts, Dependabot alerts, and clean up sensitive data and will help teams shift security left and meet continuous ATO. Come join the effort to help make an impact on security at the VA.

During this event, you can schedule time with a GitHub Advanced Security Expert to privately triage your VA team repo live!

Here is what you will gain by participating:

  • Answers to all your security related questions
  • Guided help to remove sensitive information including secrets and PHI/PII from your codebase
  • Be fully enabled on the entire feature set of security on GitHub
  • Become equipped to prevent and addressing vulnerabilities through best practices

A comprehensive report of progress made during this event and the following week will be presented to VA leadership on April 30th.

  1. 🚀 This workshop has already happened, watch the recording here 🚀
  2. First come, first serve, grab a slot for a 1:1 with a GitHub engineer to get hands on help with your codebase!

When: April 22nd @10AM

Schedule (in Eastern time zone)  
10:00-10:45 General Information Presentation on GHAS and code hygiene
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Hands on Training Session with GHAS
12:30-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-14:30 Hands on Training Session with GHAS
14:30-15:00 Wrap up, Q&A session, and report out

Unable to attend the event at this time? Schedule a security consultation for a time that is convenient for you instead.

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