A beginner-friendly guide to GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS), covering how to enable and use secret scanning, Dependabot, CodeQL code scanning, and Copilot Autofix. Explains how to find and resolve security alerts including exposed secrets, vulnerable dependencies, and risky code paths. Public repositories get these tools for free.
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