2022-04-04
GitHub Advanced Security Secret Scanning Now Offers Push Protection
GitHub has added an option to GitHub Advanced Security that scans for secrets before accepting code pushes. The new feature works with 69 token types.
Editor's Note
Nice improvement. Also note that Trufflehog released a new version with some significant improvements to find secrets like API keys left in code. Secrets like passwords and in particular API keys leaking in source code repository is an increasing problem. Modern distributed applications rely more and more on these secrets and many developers do not manage them properly.

Johannes Ullrich
Including authentication secrets in repositories continues to be a problem. This option will augment your processes designed to prevent that from happening. Verify developers don’t disable it.
