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GitHub Advanced Security (GH-500)
Learn to enhance development processes with developer-first security solutions while giving security teams cross-organizational visibility and access to curated intelligence from GitHub's global community.
Description
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.
Learning Goals
 Understand the role of GitHub Advanced Security in secure development | Understand  |
| Apply Dependabot to manage security updates | Apply  |
| Apply secret scanning to protect sensitive information | Apply |
| Apply code scanning to detect vulnerabilities | Apply |
| Analyze how CodeQL identifies security vulnerabilities | Analyze  |
| Apply code scanning using custom CodeQL queries | Apply |
| Understand GitHub administration for enabling GHAS features | Understand |
| Evaluate how to manage sensitive data and security policies in GitHub | Evaluate  |
Prior Knowledge
This course in intended for students who want to understand and implement advanced security practices with the help of GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS).
Subjects
- Introduction to GitHub Advanced Security
- Configure Dependabot security updates on your GitHub repo
- Configure and use secret scanning in your GitHub repository
- Configure code scanning on GitHub
- Identify security vulnerabilities in your codebase by using CodeQL
- Code scanning with GitHub CodeQL
- GitHub administration for GitHub Advanced Security
- Manage sensitive data and security policies within GitHub
Schedule
| Start date | Duration | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|
August 12, 2025 | 1 day | Veenendaal / Remote This is a hybrid training and can be followed remotely. More information | Sign up |
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