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Push protection is generally available, and free for all public repositories
Announcing the general availability of push protection–a feature that proactively prevents secret leaks in your public and private repositories.
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Announcing the general availability of push protection–a feature that proactively prevents secret leaks in your public and private repositories.
Secret scanning alerts are now generally available for all public repositories. Admins can now turn on the alert experience with one click.
GitHub now tells you whether GitHub tokens found by secret scanning are active so you can prioritize and escalate remediation efforts.
GitHub now allows you to track any leaked secrets in your public repository, for free. With secret scanning alerts, you can track and action on leaked secrets directly within GitHub.
With just one click, admins in GitHub Advanced Security organizations can protect their custom patterns on push.
Learn how you can seamlessly define trusted custom secret patterns to detect secrets unique to your organization with GitHub Advanced Security.
Organizations with GitHub Advanced Security can now proactively protect against secret leaks with secret scanning’s new push protection feature.