GitHub bolsters code security with advanced scanning and private instances

GitHub today announced that it’s bolstering its security solutions by offering GitHub Advanced Security and Private Instances features. Along with this the company also unveiled Codespaces — cloud-based development environment — and Discussions feature. Last year, GitHub acquired semantic code-scanning and security company Semmel. Now, the code-hosting company is integrating the latter’s features to provide in-built code-scanning. The company says that code-scanning