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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.
Drata + GitHub integration
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.
GitHub is where most of the work happens — which means it's also where most of the compliance evidence lives. The problem is that collecting it manually is a grind. Verifying branch protection settings, auditing access controls, confirming code review policies — it's tedious, error-prone, and doesn't scale. By connecting Drata and GitHub through tray.ai, compliance teams can automatically gather repository-level evidence, trigger alerts when controls drift, and keep audit trails current without chasing down engineers for screenshots. Security governance and day-to-day development stop fighting each other.
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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.
- Real-time detection of missing or misconfigured branch protection rules
- Automatic evidence collection mapped to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 controls
- Reduced risk of unauthorized code merges reaching production
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.
- Continuous visibility into repository and organization-level permissions
- Automated evidence logs ready for SOC 2 CC6 and ISO 27001 A.9 controls
- Faster, more accurate access reviews for security teams
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.
- Automated collection of pull request review and approval records
- Clear audit trail demonstrating segregation of duties in the development process
- No more manual screenshot gathering for code review evidence
Use case
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.
- Centralized visibility into open GitHub security alerts within Drata
- Automated mapping of vulnerabilities to relevant compliance controls
- SLA tracking for vulnerability remediation tied to your security policies
Use case
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.
- Instant compliance coverage for every new repository at creation time
- Consistent security configuration applied without manual DevOps intervention
- Complete asset inventory in Drata with no gaps from newly created repos
Use case
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.
- Timely, documented removal of GitHub access during employee offboarding
- Automatic evidence capture of access revocation for audit purposes
- Reduced risk of unauthorized access from former employees
Challenges Tray.ai solves
Common obstacles when integrating Drata and GitHub — and how Tray.ai handles them.
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 helps
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 helps
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 helps
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.
Sync GitHub Branch Protection Status to Drata Controls
Drata 
GitHub 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.
Enroll New GitHub Repositories in Drata Monitoring Automatically
GitHub Drata 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.
Route GitHub Dependabot Alerts to Drata as Control Exceptions
GitHub Drata 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.
Automate GitHub Access Review Evidence Collection in Drata
GitHub 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.
Revoke GitHub Access and Log Evidence in Drata on Employee Offboarding
Drata GitHub 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.
Deliver Weekly GitHub Compliance Health Report from Drata
Drata GitHub 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.
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