Secret protection must scale with software github.blog

GitHub product manager Erin Havens says secret exposures are rising as code creation accelerates, but GitHub’s data from nine quarters shows no statistically detectable increase in the share of pushes containing credentials. GitHub has developed a ModernBERT classifier with Microsoft Applied Sciences that evaluates secrets in context in under two milliseconds and could more than double the number blocked before they enter repository history; the feature is in private preview, with broader availability planned.