Deploy Endor Labs GitHub App

Endor Labs provides a GitHub App that continuously monitors users’ projects for security and operational risk. You can use the GitHub App to selectively scan your repositories for SCA, secrets, RSPM, or CI/CD tools. GitHub App scans also establish baselines that are subsequently used during CI scans.

Endor Labs GitHub App scans your repositories every 24 hours and reports any new findings or changes to release versions of your code.

If you want to use PR remediations as part of your monitoring scan, you need to use GitHub App (Pro).

Prerequisites for GitHub App

Before installing and scanning projects with Endor Labs GitHub App, make sure you have:

• A GitHub cloud account and organization. If you don’t have one, create one at GitHub.
• Administrative permissions to your GitHub organization. Installing the Endor Labs GitHub App in your organization requires approval or permissions from your GitHub organizational administrator. If you don’t have the permissions, use the command line utility, endorctl, while you wait for the approval.
• Endor Labs GitHub App requires:
  • Read permissions to Dependabot alerts, actions, administration, code, commit statuses, issues, metadata, packages, repository hooks, and security events.
  • Write permissions to checks and pull requests to check the pull requests automatically and surface policy violations to developers as pull request comments.
  • Subscribe to check run, check suite, and pull request events.

Install the GitHub App

To automatically scan repositories using the GitHub App:

1. Sign in to Endor Labs.

2. Choose Projects and click Add Project.

3. From GITHUB, choose GitHub App

4. Click Install GitHub App.

   You will be redirected to GitHub to install the GitHub App.

5. Click Install.

6. Select a user to authorize the app.

7. Select the organization in which you want to install the app.

8. Select whether to install and authorize Endor Labs on all your repositories or select the specific repositories that you wish to scan.

   

9. Review the permissions required for Endor Labs and click Install and Authorize.

   If the button to install says Install and Request instead of Install and Authorize, you don’t have permission to install the GitHub App. Use the endorctl command line interface or select Install and Request to notify your organizational administrator of your request to install.

10. Choose a namespace and click Next.

    

11. Based on your license, select and enable the scanners.

    

    • SCA: Perform software composition analysis.
    • RSPM: Scan the repository for misconfigurations.
    • Secret: Scan the repository for exposed secrets.
    • CI/CD: Scan the repository and identify all the CI/CD tools used in the repository.
    • SAST: Scan your source code for weakness and generate SAST findings.
    • AI Models: Scan your repository and discover AI models in your source code.

12. Select PULL REQUEST SCANS to set preferences for scanning pull requests submitted by users.

    

    • Select Pull Request Comments to enable GitHub Actions to comment on PRs for policy violations.

    • Select Include Archived Repositories to scan your archived repositories. By default, the GitHub archived repositories aren’t scanned.

    • In Define Scanning Preferences, select either:

      • Quick Scan to gain rapid visibility into your software composition. It performs dependency resolution but does not conduct reachability analysis to prioritize vulnerabilities. The quick scan enables users to swiftly identify potential vulnerabilities in dependencies, ensuring a smoother and more secure merge into the main branch.

      • Full Scan to perform dependency resolution, reachability analysis, and generate call graphs for supported languages and ecosystems. This scan enables users to get complete visibility and identifies all issues dependencies, call graph generation before merging into the main branch. Full scans may take longer to complete, potentially delaying PR merges.

      See GitHub scan options for more information on the scans that you can do with the GitHub App.

13. Click Continue.

You have successfully installed the GitHub App.

Manage GitHub Apps on Endor Labs

You can edit or delete the GitHub App integrations.

1. Sign in to Endor Labs.
2. Select Manage > Integrations from the left navigation menu.
3. Click Manage next to GitHub under Source Control Managers.
4. Click the ellipsis on the right side, and select Edit Integration.
5. Based on your license, select and enable from the available list of SCANNERS.
6. Choose PULL REQUEST SCANS to set preferences for scanning pull requests submitted by users.

   • Select Enable Automatic Pull Request Scanning to automatically scan the PRs submitted by users.

   • Select Enable Pull Request Comments to enable GitHub Actions to comment on PRs for policy violations.

   • Select Include archived repositories to scan your archived repositories. By default, the GitHub archived repositories aren’t scanned.

   • Set the Scanning Preferences to:

     • Quick Scan to gain rapid visibility into your software composition. It performs dependency resolution but does not conduct reachability analysis to prioritize vulnerabilities. The quick scan enables users to swiftly identify potential vulnerabilities in dependencies, ensuring a smoother and more secure merge into the main branch.

     • Full Scan to perform dependency resolution, reachability analysis, and generate call graphs for supported languages and ecosystems. This scan enables users to get complete visibility and identifies all issues dependencies, call graph generation, before merging into the main branch. Full scans may take longer to complete, potentially delaying PR merges. The changes are applicable from the next scanning cycle.

7. Use Reset to clear your selection.
8. To delete a GitHub App integration, click the ellipsis on the right side, and select Delete Integration.
9. To manually trigger a scan, click Rescan Org. Endor Labs GitHub App scans your repositories every 24 hours, use Rescan Org to manually schedule outside the 24-hour period.
10. Click Scan More Repositories to go to Projects page, from which you can add more repositories to scan through the GitHub App.

Set up package repositories

You can improve your experience with the GitHub App by setting up package repositories. This will help you create a complete bill of materials and perform static analysis. Without setting package repositories, you may not be able to get an accurate bill of materials. See Set up package manager integration for more information.