Securing your repository

Security features like secret scanning protect your repository's data.

GitHub provides a number of ways that you can help keep your repository secure.

GitHub scans repositories for known types of secrets, to prevent fraudulent use of secrets that were committed accidentally.

You can configure how GitHub scans your private repositories for secrets.

You can view and close alerts for secrets checked in to your repository.

You can control features that secure and analyze the code in your project on GitHub.