How to use Dependabot, code scanning, and secret scanning on GitHub

Study Shieldhub, turning on GitHub security alerts and acting on findings with Dependabot, code scanning, secret scanning, security advisories.

  • Difficulty Intermediate
  • Parts 10
  • Stack Dependabot, code scanning, secret scanning, security advisories

What you are learning

Shieldhub is turning on GitHub security alerts and acting on findings. The teaching focus is Security (Dependabot, code scanning, secret scanning, security advisories).

Work in order. Early parts set vocabulary and environment; later parts assume the earlier checkpoints.

How to use these lessons

Read the goal, open the matching GitHub folder, complete the lab or exercises, then return for the explanation. If a command fails, check you are in the numbered folder first.

Open the Shieldhub GitHub repo โ†’

Parts in order

Each chapter below is one checkpoint in this track.