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Hands-on playbook · 60 min

GitHub Advanced Security Playbook: Org Rollout, CodeQL Tuning, Custom Patterns and Alert Triage

A hands-on GitHub Advanced Security deep dive: roll out with security configurations, tune CodeQL with a config file and query filters, add third-party SARIF without overwriting results, publish custom secret patterns after a dry run, set up delegated bypass, gate dependencies, and triage alerts through the REST API.

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WHAT YOU WILL DO
  • Roll out code scanning, secret scanning and Dependabot with one security configuration
  • Tune CodeQL with a config file and query filters without silently dropping queries
  • Upload Semgrep or Trivy SARIF next to CodeQL without overwriting results
  • Dry-run and publish a custom secret pattern for your internal tokens
  • Set up delegated bypass and exemptions for trusted automation
  • Gate merges on vulnerable or disallowed dependencies
  • Triage alerts at scale with the REST API, live secrets first
SECTIONS
  1. 01Under the hood
  2. 02Hands-on lab
  3. 03Recipes
  4. 04Rollout runbook
  5. 05Troubleshooting
  6. 06Interview drill
  7. 07Sources
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