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GitHub Advanced Security

GitHub Advanced Security

- [Instructor] GitHub Advanced Security provides automated vulnerability detection integrated directly into your development workflow. Here, I'm going to show how to enable the main GitHub Advanced Security features on a repository, show ya how to interpret security alerts, and demonstrate how GitHub detects and helps remediate security issues, like hard-coded credentials. So here, we're in our settings of our GitHub repo, and we're going to go down to Advanced Security. And what we're going to do is we're going to enable CodeQL Analysis. So in order to do that, we go to Settings, and Advanced Security, and we go down to CodeQL analysis, and hit Set Up. And we will be given different options. GitHub offers a Default setup, which automatically detects your repositories' languages and configures appropriate security queries. Or you can do an Advanced setup, where you can customize your CodeQL configuration with a proper…

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