Security

Access Tokens

  • Explanation and example use of Access Tokens, and a bit about SSH Keys: video .

SSH Keys

  • A somewhat 'vague' explanation about SSH Keys, Public and Private: video .

Advanced Security

  • Video explaining several 'Advanced Security' concepts: GitHub channel video .

    • Secrets Scanning (scans Organization, Repository and Environment code for leaked secrets).

    • CodeQL (Code Scanning) (scans code for security vulnerabilities).

      • Can be used to check for viruses or vulnerabilities in public repositories before making changes or forks.

      • Reminder: Query Language (QL) refers to any programming language that requests data and retrieves it from a database/systems using "queries".

    • Dependabot (checks dependencies against other open-source repositories).