Drata + GitHub
Stop Collecting Compliance Evidence by Hand — Connect Drata and GitHub
Connect Drata and GitHub to continuously monitor repositories, enforce compliance controls, and get rid of manual evidence collection before your next audit.
Why integrate Drata and GitHub?
Drata is a security and compliance automation platform that continuously monitors your infrastructure and workflows against frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA. GitHub is where engineering teams manage source code, review pull requests, and ship software. Connecting Drata with GitHub lets security and engineering teams automatically pull compliance evidence from repositories, enforce branch protection rules, and catch policy violations without slowing developers down.
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Use case
Automated Branch Protection Policy Monitoring
Drata continuously checks GitHub repositories to verify that branch protection rules — required code reviews, status checks, restrictions on force pushes — are actually enforced. When a repository falls out of compliance, Drata flags it immediately. No more manually auditing dozens or hundreds of repositories the week before an audit.
Use case
GitHub Access Control Auditing and Evidence Collection
Tracking who has access to which GitHub repositories is a core requirement for nearly every compliance framework, and it changes constantly. This integration automatically pulls organization member lists, team permissions, and repository collaborators from GitHub into Drata so access control evidence stays current. Quarterly access reviews go from a painful scramble to a routine task.
Use case
Pull Request Review Enforcement and Audit Trail Sync
Most compliance frameworks require proof that code changes are peer-reviewed before hitting production. By connecting GitHub with Drata via tray.ai, teams can automatically capture pull request approval data and surface it as compliance evidence. Auditors get a verifiable, timestamped record of every code review — no screenshots required.
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Repository Vulnerability Scanning Alert Routing
GitHub's Dependabot and code scanning features surface security vulnerabilities directly in repositories, but that data often stays siloed away from the compliance team. This integration forwards GitHub security alerts into Drata so open vulnerabilities are tracked as control exceptions, with clear ownership and remediation timelines tied to policy.
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New Repository Compliance Onboarding
When a new repository gets created in GitHub, it should have the right security configurations applied immediately — not two weeks later when someone notices. This integration triggers an automated onboarding workflow that checks new repositories for required settings, applies default branch protections, and registers them as monitored assets in Drata.
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Offboarding Engineers and Revoking GitHub Access
When an employee leaves, revoking their GitHub access promptly isn't optional — it's a compliance requirement. This integration ensures that offboarding events detected in Drata, or triggered from your HR system, automatically kick off GitHub access removal workflows, with evidence of the revocation captured back in Drata.
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Continuous Compliance Status Reporting for Engineering Leaders
Engineering managers and CISOs need ongoing visibility into their team's compliance posture without logging into multiple platforms. This integration pulls GitHub control statuses from Drata and delivers scheduled compliance health reports, giving leadership a single view of repository security, open findings, and audit readiness.
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Drata & GitHub Challenges
What challenges are there when working with Drata & GitHub and how will using Tray.ai help?
Challenge
Keeping Repository Compliance Evidence Fresh Without Manual Work
GitHub repositories change constantly — new repos get created, branch protections get modified, access permissions shift. Maintaining accurate, up-to-date compliance evidence by hand is nearly impossible. Point-in-time snapshots go stale fast and often don't reflect what your environment actually looks like when an auditor shows up.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai supports continuous scheduled polling of GitHub repository data alongside real-time webhook-triggered workflows, so Drata always has current evidence. Automated data pipelines replace manual collection, keeping your compliance records in sync with your live GitHub environment.
Challenge
Mapping GitHub Technical Data to Compliance Framework Controls
GitHub outputs raw technical data — API responses with repository metadata, permission objects, alert payloads — that has to be transformed and mapped to specific controls inside Drata. Without a dedicated integration layer, that translation falls on engineers or compliance analysts who end up doing it by hand every review cycle.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai's workflow builder has data transformation built in, so teams can normalize and map GitHub API responses to the exact format and control identifiers Drata expects. Build the transformation logic once and reuse it across all your GitHub compliance workflows — no custom code needed.
Challenge
Managing Compliance Across Hundreds of GitHub Repositories at Scale
Organizations with large engineering teams may manage hundreds or thousands of GitHub repositories. Manually verifying compliance settings for each one isn't realistic. A single misconfigured repository can be a material control failure, and there's no way to catch them all without automation.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai supports bulk operations and iterative workflow logic, so a single automated workflow can loop through every repository in a GitHub organization, check compliance settings, and report results to Drata in one run. As your repository count grows, the automation keeps up — no extra manual effort required.
Challenge
Handling GitHub API Rate Limits During Large Evidence Collection Runs
When collecting compliance evidence across a large GitHub organization, workflows can hit GitHub's API rate limits quickly — causing evidence collection to fail mid-run and leaving Drata with incomplete data. This gets especially painful during pre-audit sprints when you need a lot of data gathered fast.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai's workflow engine has built-in rate limit handling, retry logic, and pagination, so large GitHub evidence collection runs finish successfully even when API limits kick in. Workflows throttle requests automatically and pick up where they left off, delivering complete evidence sets to Drata every time.
Challenge
Ensuring Timely Offboarding and Access Revocation Across GitHub
SOC 2 and similar frameworks require access to be revoked within a defined window after someone leaves. Without automation, GitHub offboarding steps get delayed, done inconsistently, or poorly documented — which is real audit risk, plus the more immediate problem of former employees who technically still have access.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai connects your HR system or identity provider to GitHub and Drata in a single end-to-end offboarding workflow. When a termination event is detected, access removal happens automatically and evidence is captured in Drata — no manual steps, no delays, no gaps in the audit trail.
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Drata & GitHub Templates
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Template
Sync GitHub Branch Protection Status to Drata Controls
This template queries GitHub repository settings on a schedule and pushes branch protection compliance data into Drata, updating control evidence and flagging any repositories that don't meet your defined policies.
Steps:
- Scheduled trigger fires on a defined cadence (e.g., daily or hourly)
- Query all GitHub repositories in the organization via the GitHub API
- Check branch protection settings for each repository's default branch
- Evaluate settings against defined compliance policy criteria
- Push passing evidence or flag failing controls in Drata via the Drata API
Connectors Used: Drata, GitHub
Template
Enroll New GitHub Repositories in Drata Monitoring Automatically
When a new repository is created in GitHub, this template triggers a workflow that applies baseline security configurations and registers the repository as a monitored asset in Drata, so there are no gaps in compliance coverage.
Steps:
- GitHub webhook fires when a new repository is created
- Apply default branch protection rules to the new repository via GitHub API
- Verify that required security settings are in place
- Register the new repository as an asset in Drata
- Notify the security team via Slack or email of the new monitored asset
Connectors Used: GitHub, Drata
Template
Route GitHub Dependabot Alerts to Drata as Control Exceptions
This template listens for new Dependabot or code scanning alerts in GitHub and automatically creates corresponding control exceptions or findings in Drata, so vulnerabilities are tracked and remediated within your policy-defined SLAs.
Steps:
- GitHub webhook triggers on new Dependabot or code scanning alert
- Parse alert severity, affected repository, and vulnerability details
- Create a corresponding finding or exception record in Drata
- Map the finding to the relevant compliance controls in Drata
- Set remediation due date based on severity and internal SLA policy
Connectors Used: GitHub, Drata
Template
Automate GitHub Access Review Evidence Collection in Drata
This template periodically pulls GitHub organization membership and repository permission data and uploads it to Drata as evidence for access control reviews, cutting out the manual work that piles up during quarterly reviews and audits.
Steps:
- Scheduled trigger fires on a weekly or monthly cadence
- Pull organization members, teams, and repository collaborators from GitHub
- Normalize permission data into a structured access control report
- Upload the access control evidence to Drata against the relevant controls
- Flag any users with admin access who are not on the approved list
Connectors Used: GitHub, Drata
Template
Revoke GitHub Access and Log Evidence in Drata on Employee Offboarding
This template removes GitHub organization access when an employee is offboarded and captures timestamped evidence of the revocation in Drata, satisfying compliance requirements for timely access termination.
Steps:
- Trigger fires from an HR system, Drata personnel event, or manual input
- Identify the departing employee's GitHub username from personnel records
- Remove the user from the GitHub organization and all associated teams
- Confirm removal via GitHub API and capture the timestamp
- Log access revocation evidence in Drata and close the offboarding control task
Connectors Used: Drata, GitHub
Template
Deliver Weekly GitHub Compliance Health Report from Drata
This template pulls GitHub-related control statuses and open findings from Drata every week and delivers a formatted compliance health report to engineering leadership and the security team via email or Slack.
Steps:
- Scheduled trigger fires every Monday morning
- Query Drata API for all GitHub-related control statuses and open findings
- Aggregate data into a structured compliance summary report
- Format the report with failing controls, open findings, and remediation priorities
- Deliver the report via email or post it to a designated Slack channel
Connectors Used: Drata, GitHub