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Prevent Secret Exposure with Secret Scanning

Prevent leaks and mitigate risk with GitHub Secret Scanning. Learn how to detect, revoke, and prevent exposed secrets with GHAS and secure your development workflows.

Tim Warner - Pluralsight course - Prevent Secret Exposure with Secret Scanning
by Tim Warner

What you'll learn

Secrets in source code can lead to catastrophic breaches. In this course, Prevent Secret Exposure with Secret Scanning, you’ll learn how to safeguard your GitHub repositories by detecting and managing leaked secrets. First, you’ll explore how secrets are commonly exposed and the risks they introduce. Next, you'll enable secret scanning, test detection patterns, and configure notifications. Then, you’ll define custom detection rules and enforce security policies. Finally, you'll integrate secret scanning into CI/CD pipelines and establish an incident response plan. By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to operationalize secret scanning and protect your organization's sensitive credentials.

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About the author

Tim Warner - Pluralsight course - Prevent Secret Exposure with Secret Scanning
Tim Warner

Timothy Warner is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Cloud and Datacenter Management who is based in Nashville, TN.

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