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Now generally available, GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers with enterprise managed users (EMU) can integrate with Ping Federate as a formally supported SSO and SCIM identity provider. To get started, download the Ping Federate "GitHub EMU Connector 1.0" from the add-ons tab on the download page, under the "SaaS Connectors" heading. Add the connector to your Ping Federate installation and consult the Ping Federate documentation in addition to GitHub's SAML SSO and SCIM documentation for configuration.

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The "GitHub EMU Connector" is maintained and supported by our partner, Ping Identity. Ping additionally maintains their own release notes for this connector.

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In October 2022, we released a private beta adding linked SAML single sign-on (SSO) identities for relevant users to GitHub Enterprise audit log events.

We are expanding the private beta to now include linked identities within git events, making this information available across all relevant events.

Enterprise owners interested in participating in the private beta should reach out to your GitHub account manager or contact our sales team to have this feature enabled for your enterprise. Once enabled, enterprise and organization owners can provide feedback at the logging SAML SSO authentication data for enterprise and org audit log events community discussion page.

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Earlier this year, we announced the roll out of enterprise accounts to all GitHub Enterprise customers. Enterprise accounts enable enterprise customers to manage and scale their users and Organizations through one administrative portal.

As part of this transition, customers upgrading from a Free or Teams plan Organization to the Enterprise plan now have an enterprise account.

If you are currently on GitHub Enterprise with a single organziation, a free upgrade flow will soon be available on your Organization's Billing settings page, for you to transition into an enterprise account. Stay tuned for the announcement on when that is live.

To learn more, read our documentation about enterprise accounts or about upgrading your account's plan.

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In early July, GitHub announced a new rate limit was coming for the audit log API endpoints. Starting today, each audit log API endpoint will impose a rate limit of 1,750 queries per hour per user, IP address, enterprise, or organization. This is higher than the previously stated change to 15 queries per minute, in order to allow integrators more time to adjust workflows and scripts which programmatically query the audit log API. We intend to enforce a limit of 15 queries per minute on or after November 1st, 2023.

This rate limit will be enforced on each combination of an individual user, IP address and entity path (/orgs/<org_name>/audit_log or /enterprises/<enterprise_name>/audit_log) independently.

To adapt to these changes and avoid rate limiting, programs or integrations querying the audit log API should query at a maximum frequency of 1,750 queries per hour. Additionally, applications querying the audit log API should be updated to honor HTTP 403 and 429 responses to dynamically adjust to the back-pressure exerted by GitHub.

For additional information, please consult our documentation on handling rate limits for requests from personal accounts and rate limits for GitHub Apps. Alternatively, enterprises seeking access to near real-time data should consider streaming your enterprise audit log.

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In April, we announced that GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers could join a public beta for streaming API request events as part of their enterprise audit log. As part of that release, REST API calls against enterprise's private and internal repositories could be streamed to one of GitHub's supported streaming endpoints.

However, we've discovered the need to expand our api call coverage against private and internal repositories in order to capture other security significant api routes. Additionally, we've determined several api routes targeting internal and private repositories generate significant event volumes with little auditing or security value. To address these concerns, we partnered with GitHub's security team to define a set of auditing and security significant controllers to serve as the basis for the public beta. These adjustments to the beta should increase signal and decrease the noise generated by the api request event being streamed.
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Enterprise owners interested in the public beta can still follow the instructions in our docs for enabling audit log streaming of API requests. We welcome feedback on the changes made to this feature on our beta feedback community discussion post.

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The 2023 updates to our ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certificate can be downloaded now. In addition, we have completed the processes for ISO/IEC 27701:2019 (PII Processor), ISO/IEC 27018:2019, and CSA STAR certifications. Those certificates can also be downloaded now.

  • For enterprises, administrators may download this report by navigating to the Compliance tab of the enterprise account: https://github.com/enterprises/"your-enterprise"/settings/compliance.
  • For organizations, owners may find these reports under Security > Compliance settings tab of their organization: https://github.com/organizations/"your-org"/settings/compliance.

For detailed guidance on accessing these reports, read our compliance documentation for organizations and enterprises.

Check out the GitHub blog for more information.

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GitHub provides Enterprise customers with the ability to programmatically retrieve enterprise and organization audit log events in near real-time using the audit log API. A high-quality audit log is an essential tool used by enterprises to ensure compliance, maintain security, investigate issues, and promote accountability. To support these objectives, the audit log API needs to be highly reliable, consistently available, and extremely scalable.

Recognizing the audit log API's importance as a data source to enterprises, each audit log API endpoint will impose a rate limit of 15 queries per minute per enterprise or org starting August 1st, 2023. Based on a thorough analysis of event generation data, we are confident that the new rate limit will continue to support customers in accessing near real-time data via the audit log API. Additionally, query cost is a crucial consideration, and in the future, the audit log may impose further rate limiting for high-cost queries that place significant strain on our data stores.

What can you do to prepare for these changes? First, programs or integrations querying the audit log API should be adjusted to query at a maximum frequency of 15 queries per minute. Additionally, applications querying the audit log API should be updated to be capable of honoring HTTP 429 responses, enabling them to dynamically adjust to the back-pressure exerted by our systems. Alternatively, Enterprises seeking access to near real-time data should consider streaming your enterprise audit log.

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The Enterprise and Organization audit log UI and user security logs UI now include an expandable view that displays the full audit log payload of each event.

Customers can now see the same event metadata when searching your audit log via U/I, exporting audit logs to a JSON file, querying the audit log API, or streaming your audit logs to one of our supported streaming endpoints.

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GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers with enterprise managed users (EMU) can now integrate with Ping Federate as a formally supported SSO and SCIM identity provider in public beta. To get started, download the Ping Federate "GitHub EMU Connector 1.0" from the add-ons tab on the download page, under the "SaaS Connectors" heading. Add the connector to your Ping Federate installation and consult the Ping Federate documentation in addition to GitHub's SAML SSO and SCIM documentation for configuration.

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The "GitHub EMU Connector" is maintained and supported by our partner, Ping Identity. Ping additionally maintains their own release notes for this connector.

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Repositories in the user namespace of enterprise-managed users (EMU) can now be seen and accessed by enterprise administrators. All repositories in the user namespace (e.g. https://github.com/mona_tenantName/scratch) can now be navigated to from the Repositories enterprise policies page: https://github.com/enterprises/<enterprise>/settings/member_privileges. From this new view, administrators can temporarily grant themselves administrative rights to these repositories. This action will trigger alerts to the repository owner as well as audit log events.

This public beta feature set is intended to increase visibility of namespace repositories to administrators while also empowering administrators to audit these repositories as needed.

To learn more, check out our documentation about viewing user-owned repositories in your enterprise and accessing user-owned repositories in your enterprise.

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GitHub Enterprises and Organzations can now join a private beta to try our new expandable event payload view in their audit log.

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We have gotten a lot of feedback that the information available in the audit log U/I is not the same as the data available in the audit log's exports, API and streaming payloads. In response, GitHub is adding a new expandable view of an event's payload in the audit log U/I. This brings data consistency to all the ways of consuming audit logs.

Enterprise and Organization owners interested in participating in the private beta should reach out to your GitHub account manager or contact our sales team to have this feature enabled. Make sure to let us know what you think using our beta feedback community discussion post.

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GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers can now join a public beta for streaming API request events as part of their enterprise audit log.

As part of this beta, REST API calls against enterprise's private and internal repositories can be streamed to one of GitHub's supported streaming endpoints.
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Note: hashed_token and token_id have been redacted for security reasons.

Many GitHub users leverage GitHub's APIs to extend and customize their GitHub experience. However, use of APIs can create unique security and operational challenges for Enterprises. With the introduction of targeted audit log streaming API requests, enterprise owners are now able to:

  • Better understand and analyze API usage targeting their private and internal repositories;
  • Identify and diagnose potentially misconfigured applications or integrations;
  • Identify the authentication tokens being used by specific applications or integrations;
  • Troubleshoot API contributing to API rate limiting;
  • Leverage API activity when performing forensic investigations; and
  • Develop API specific anomaly detection algorithms to identify potentially malicious API activity.

Enterprise owners interested in the public beta can follow the instructions in our docs for enabling audit log streaming of API requests. Once enabled, you should begin seeing API request events in your audit log stream. Feedback can be provided at our beta feedback community discussion post.

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GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers can now join a private beta which allows API request events to be streamed as part of their enterprise audit log.

In this private beta, REST API calls against enterprise private repositories can be streamed to one of GitHub's supported streaming endpoints. Further iterations on this feature are planned to expand the API events captured and make this data available via the audit log API.

Many GitHub users leverage GitHub's APIs to extend and customize their GitHub experience. However, use of APIs can create unique security and operational challenges for Enterprises.

With the introduction of targeted audit log streaming API requests, Enterprise owners are now able to:

  • Better understand and analyze API usage targeting their private repositories;
  • Identify and diagnose potentially misconfigured applications or integrations;
  • Troubleshoot API activity targeting private repositories that may be contributing to API rate limiting; and
  • Develop API specific anomaly detection algorithms to identify potentially malicious activity.

Enterprise owners interested in participating in the private beta should reach out to your GitHub account manager or contact our sales team to have this feature enabled for your enterprise. Once enabled, you should begin seeing API request events in your audit log stream. Feedback can be provided at our beta feedback community discussion post.

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