GitHub Apps improve least-privilege access and PAT migration path

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:39:00 +0000

Platform/SRE — Plan: If your platform automation still uses classic PATs for GitHub API access, schedule a migration to fine-grained GitHub Apps tokens this quarter — fewer broad credentials reduces blast radius from a compromised token.
CI/CD — Plan: Pipelines relying on classic PATs for repo access or triggering workflows should be migrated to GitHub Apps with scoped permissions; no hard deadline, but this hardening step fits a Q4 supply-chain hygiene project.
Leader — Skip

GitHub Actions cache-mode enables least-privilege cache access

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:43:59 +0000

Platform/SRE — Skip
CI/CD — Plan: New GA GitHub Actions feature lets you scope cache read/write permissions per workflow or job, reducing blast radius of a compromised workflow. Evaluate and adopt cache-mode across pipelines this quarter as a supply-chain hardening step.
Leader — Skip