Course
digicode: GH500
GitHub Advanced Security – Intensive Training («GH500»)
GH-500
Course facts
- Gaining an understanding of GitHub Advanced Security features
- Obtaining the skills to recognize, apply, and evaluate these features within your own GitHub environment
GitHub Advanced Security enhances code protection throughout the development lifecycle. As an add-on to GitHub Enterprise, it provides features such as secret scanning, code scanning, and dependency management for private repositories.
1 Introduction to GitHub Advanced Security
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.
2 Configure Dependabot security updates on your GitHub repo
Manage your dependencies with GitHub Dependabot.
3 Configure and use secret scanning in your GitHub repository
Understand how secret scanning works to configure and use it efficiently.
4 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.
5 Identify security vulnerabilities in your codebase by using CodeQL
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.
6 Code scanning with GitHub CodeQL
Learn how to use CodeQL, a powerful static analysis tool, to implement code scanning on GitHub.
7 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.
8 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.
DevOps Engineer, Solution Architect, Administrator
- A GitHub account
- Basic understanding of GitHub fundamentals