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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.

Intermediate
1h 11m
(2)

Created by Tim Warner

Last Updated Jun 13, 2025

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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.

Intermediate
1h 11m
(2)

Created by Tim Warner

Last Updated Jun 13, 2025

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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.

Prevent Secret Exposure with Secret Scanning
Intermediate
1h 11m
(2)
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Tim Warner
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Tim Warner is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Microsoft Certified Trainer (since 1997) with nearly three decades of experience as an IT professional and technical educator.

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