Sec Team - Banners to cut

Findings from the Sec Design team's banner alert audit. Workshop figjam

Banners to cut

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Use case Main message Status (has been cut?) or link to MR

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New feature introduction Something is new

gitlab!220970 (merged)

gitlab!221172 (merged)

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New feature introduction Something is new Note: Seems outside the scope of the banner cleanup?

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Security training enablement Something is new

gitlab!221211 (merged)

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User needs SSH key before using features Action required before proceeding

gitlab!221468 (merged)

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Informing about auto-archiving old vulns Action required by certain date Note: Do not remove until we communicate this in a different way

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Upgrade required to use feature Action required before proceeding

gitlab!221319 (merged)

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User nudge to properly store authentication recovery codes Informative

gitlab!222714 (merged)

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Inform user that they don't have all scanners enabled Inform

gitlab!222724 (merged)

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Inform user of advanced policy editor feature Inform

gitlab!222709 (merged)

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Inform user their account will be deleted if email is not verified within X amount of days Action required by certain date

gitlab!221563 (merged)

Sec banners that were cut

Screenshot Use case Main message Status/ Link
Screenshot 2026-02-05 at 4.16.35 PM.png New feature introduction, may lead to new SKU purchase SAST False Positive detection free while in Beta (becomes paid in GA) gitlab!221219 (merged)
Screenshot 2026-02-05 at 4.20.07 PM.png New feature introduction/ user needs advanced search enabled in order to view new dashboard Something is new and they don't have access to it (this message is only shown to users that don't have advanced search enabled) gitlab!221340 (merged)
Edited by Sayo Bittencourt