GH-500 GitHub Advanced Security
- 1 Day Course
- Language: English
Introduction:
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.
Objectives:
Course Outline:
1 – Introduction to GitHub Advanced Security
- Define GHAS and the importance of its integral features
- How to utilize GHAS to get the most impact
- Understand GHAS and its role in the security ecosystem
- Module assessment
2 – Configure Dependabot security updates on your GitHub repo
- Manage your dependencies on GitHub
- Dependabot alerts
- Dependabot security updates
- Manage Dependabot notifications and reports
- Dependency review
- Module assessment
3 – Configure and use secret scanning in your GitHub repository
- What is secret scanning?
- Configure secret scanning
- Use secret scanning
- Module assessment
4 – Configure code scanning on GitHub
- What is code scanning?
- Enable code scanning with third party tools
- Configure code scanning
- Configure code scanning exercise
- Module assessment
5 – Identify security vulnerabilities in your codebase by using CodeQL
- Prepare a database for CodeQL
- Run CodeQL in a database
- Understand CodeQL results
- Troubleshoot CodeQL results
- Module assessment
6 – Code scanning with GitHub CodeQL
- What is CodeQL?
- How does CodeQL analyze code?
- What is QL?
- Code scanning and CodeQL
- Customize your code scanning workflow with CodeQL – Part 1
- Customize your code scanning workflow with CodeQL – Part 2
- Use the CodeQL CLI
- Customize languages and builds for code scanning
- Module assessment
7 – GitHub administration for GitHub Advanced Security
- What is GitHub Advanced Security?
- Enable GitHub Advanced Security
- Manage access to GitHub Advanced Security
- Manage the GitHub Advanced Security features and alerts
- Module assessment
8 – Manage sensitive data and security policies within GitHub
- Setting security policies
- Create and manage repository rulesets
- Reporting and logging
- Module assessment
Enroll in this course
£695.00