GitHub Advanced Security
gh-500
1 days
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Introduction to GitHub Advanced Security
This module will help you become familiar with GitHub's Advanced Security features and best practices. As you learn about these features, you'll identify critical areas for eliminating security gaps.
- Define GHAS and the importance of its integral features
- How to utilize GHAS to get the most impact
- Understand GHAS and its role in the security ecosystem
- Module assessment
Configure Dependabot security updates on your GitHub repo
Learn how to configure Dependabot security updates on your GitHub repo.
- Manage your dependencies on GitHub
- Dependabot alerts
- Dependabot security updates
- Manage Dependabot notifications and reports
- Dependency review
- Exercise - Configure Dependabot security updates
- Module assessment
Configure and use secret scanning in your GitHub repository
On completing this module, you'll understand how secret scanning works to configure and use it efficiently.
- What is secret scanning?
- Configure secret scanning
- Use secret scanning
- Exercise
- Module assessment
Configure code scanning on GitHub
This module introduces you to code scanning and its features. You'll learn how to implement code scanning using CodeQL, third party tools, and GitHub Actions.
- What is code scanning?
- Enable code scanning with third party tools
- Configure code scanning
- Configure code scanning exercise
- Module assessment
Identify security vulnerabilities in your codebase by using CodeQL
Learn how to use CodeQL to analyze the code in your GitHub repository and identify security vulnerabilities.
- Prepare a database for CodeQL
- Run CodeQL in a database
- Understand CodeQL results
- Troubleshoot CodeQL results
- Module assessment
Code scanning with GitHub CodeQL
Learn how to use CodeQL, a powerful static analysis tool, to implement code scanning on GitHub.
- What is CodeQL?
- How does CodeQL analyze code?
- What is QL?
- Code scanning and CodeQL
- Customize your code scanning workflow with CodeQL - Part 1
- Exercise - Reference a CodeQL query
- Customize your code scanning workflow with CodeQL - Part 2
- Use the CodeQL CLI
- Customize languages and builds for code scanning
- Exercise - Configure a CodeQL language matrix
- Module assessment
GitHub administration for GitHub Advanced Security
Understand where GitHub Advanced Security fits in your software development lifecycle and how to enable and roll it out in your organization.
- What is GitHub Advanced Security?
- Enable GitHub Advanced Security
- Manage access to GitHub Advanced Security
- Manage the GitHub Advanced Security features and alerts
- Module assessment
Manage sensitive data and security policies within GitHub
Familiarize yourself with GitHub's basic security tools, which prepare repositories for secure development and industry-standard response to threats.
- Setting security policies
- Create and manage repository rulesets
- Reporting and logging
- Exercise
- Module assessment
GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) plays a crucial role in enhancing the security posture of software development projects on GitHub. It provides a comprehensive set of tools and features designed to identify and address security vulnerabilities throughout the development lifecycle. By integrating security directly into the development process with GHAS, your team can build more secure and reliable software. The course will explore how to utilize GHAS to maximize security impact and understand GHAS and its role in the security ecosystem.
This course in intended for students who want to understand and implement advanced security practices with the help of GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS). They will learn how to significantly enhance software development processes and create a more resilient and secure development ecosystem using developer-first solutions to unlock the ability to keep code, supply chain, and secrets secure before you push to production. They will learn how GHAS gives security teams visibility into the cross-organizational security posture and supply chain and unparalleled access to curated security intelligence from millions of developers and security researchers around the world.
