The GitHub Advanced Security Certification Prep course equips participants with the expertise to safeguard their GitHub repositories by mastering security best practices. Learn to configure Dependabot security updates, implement secret scanning, and set up code scanning to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities. Gain hands-on experience in managing sensitive data and enforcing security policies within your GitHub environment.

Dive deeper into identifying security vulnerabilities using CodeQL and conducting thorough code analysis with GitHub CodeQL. Enhance your skills in GitHub administration for advanced security protocols and ensure your organization's repositories remain secure. This course is ideal for developers, DevOps engineers, and security professionals aiming to strengthen their GitHub security posture.

Certificate

All participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from Tertiary Courses after achieved at least 75% attendance.

Funding and Grant

HRD Corp Claimable Course for Employers Registered with HRD Corp

Course Code: M1776

Topic 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

Topic 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

• Configure Dependabot security updates

Topic 3 Configure and use secret scanning in your GitHub repository

• What is secret scanning?

• Configure secret scanning

• Use secret scanning

Topic 4 Configure code scanning on GitHub

• What is code scanning?

• Enable code scanning with third party tools

• Configure code scanning

• Configure code scanning exercise

Topic 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

Topic 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

• Reference a CodeQL query

• Customize your code scanning workflow with CodeQL - Part 2

• Use the CodeQL CLI

• Customize languages and builds for code scanning

• Configure a CodeQL language matrix

Topic 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

Topic 8 Manage sensitive data and security policies within GitHub

• Setting security policies

• Create and manage repository rulesets

• Reporting and logging