GitHub Advanced Security

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Learn how to secure your code with advanced security features at every stage of your development lifecycle. GitHub Advanced Security is an add-on to GitHub Enterprise that allows you to use security features, such as secret scanning, code scanning, and dependency management on your private repositories.

In this learning path, you'll:

  • Gain an understanding of GitHub Advanced Security features
  • Obtain the skills to recognize, apply, and evaluate these features within your own GitHub environment

Prerequisites

  • A GitHub account
  • Basic understanding of GitHub fundamentals

Modules in this learning path

This module will help you become familiar with GitHub's Advanced Security features (GHAS) and best practices. As you learn about these features, you'll identify critical areas for eliminating security gaps.

Manage your dependencies with GitHub Dependabot.

Understand how secret scanning works to configure and use it efficiently.

This module introduces you to code scanning and its features. You will learn how to implement code scanning using CodeQL, third party tools, and GitHub Actions.

In this module, you learn about CodeQL and how you can use it to analyze the code in your GitHub repository and identify security vulnerabilities.

Learn how to use CodeQL, a powerful static analysis tool, to implement code scanning on GitHub.

Understand where GitHub Advanced Security fits in your software development lifecycle and how to enable and roll it out in your organization.

Familiarize yourself with GitHub's basic security tools, which prepare repositories for secure development and industry-standard response to threats.