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8. Scorecard

Nanik Tolaram1  
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Sydney, NSW, Australia
 

In this chapter, you will look at an open source security tool called Scorecard. Scorecard provides security metrics for projects you are interested in. The metrics will give you visibility on the security concerns that you need to be aware of regarding the projects.

You will learn how to create GitHub tokens using your GitHub account. The tokens are needed by the tool to extract public GitHub repository information. You will walk through the steps of installing and using the tool. To understand the tool better, you will ...

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