AI BriefingGitHub Guide for Beginners: Getting Started with GitHub Security Features
Key point
It guides how to manage code vulnerabilities and leaked secrets by using GitHub's security tools.
Details
Vulnerabilities in your code or the libraries you use are risk factors that attackers can exploit. Since most software depends on third-party packages, even a small new project can inherit security risks through its libraries.
GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) is a suite of products that helps improve code quality and resolve security issues. On public repositories, you can use the Dependabot, code scanning, secret scanning, and Copilot Autofix features.
To enable the security features, you need to configure the following items in the repository's Settings > Advanced Security menu.
- Dependabot: Enable dependency alerts and security updates
- CodeQL analysis: Configure code scanning
- Secret Protection: Enable secret protection
The detailed functions of the main tools are as follows.
- Secret scanning: Detects when an API key or token is accidentally committed. Detected secrets must be revoked directly by the user on the relevant platform (Azure, Stripe, etc.).
- Dependabot: Detects vulnerabilities in libraries and provides alerts, and creates a Pull Request to update to a safe version.
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