Adding Security Workflows to GitHub Actions (2/2): gosec workflow (#1429

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* adding gosec gha workflow

* removing PR and commit triggers

* adding cronjob

Co-authored-by: Azfaar Qureshi <azfaarq@amazon.com>

.github/workflows/gosec.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+name: Run Gosec
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  schedule:
+    #        ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
+    #        │  ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
+    #        │  │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
+    #        │  │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12 or JAN-DEC)
+    #        │  │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6 or SUN-SAT)
+    #        │  │ │ │ │
+    #        │  │ │ │ │
+    #        │  │ │ │ │
+    #        *  * * * *
+    - cron: '30 2 * * *'
+jobs:
+  tests:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      GO111MODULE: on
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout Source
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Run Gosec Security Scanner
+        uses: securego/gosec@master
+        with:
+          args: ./...
+

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
 - Documentation about the project's versioning policy. (#1388)
 - `NewSplitDriver` for OTLP exporter that allows sending traces and metrics to different endpoints. (#1418)
 - Add codeql worfklow to GitHub Actions (#1428)
+- Added Gosec workflow to GitHub Actions (#1429)
 
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