Secret Scanning & Preventing Leaked Credentials — Roadmap Step & Reso…
Catching accidentally committed API keys and passwords before or after they leak
- Level: advanced
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: Git & GitHub Fundamentals
Before this step
Interview questions
- What should you do the moment you realize you've pushed a secret to a public repo?
Study resources
- About secret scanning (Article) — GitHub's own official documentation on secret scanning.
- What to Do If You Leak a Secret to GitHub (Article) — GitHub's own official documentation on removing sensitive data from a repository's history.
Part of
- Git & GitHub Security Best Practices — section
- Git & GitHub Fundamentals roadmap — the full learning path