GH-500T00: GitHub Advanced Security Training

Enhance GitHub Security with GH-500 Training

The GH-500 GitHub Advanced Security course provides an in-depth look at GitHub’s advanced security capabilities. Participants learn to implement secret scanning, perform code scanning with CodeQL, and manage dependencies with Dependabot. The curriculum also covers administrative best practices, including configuring security policies and safeguarding sensitive data within GitHub.

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Course Overview

GH-500T00: GitHub Advanced Security delivers an in-depth exploration of GitHub’s security capabilities, including secret scanning, CodeQL-based code scanning, and dependency management with Dependabot. Participants will learn to configure and apply these tools to strengthen their software development security posture. The course also addresses administrative best practices, such as establishing security policies and managing sensitive data within GitHub.

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Upcoming Schedules

Start Date	Time	Duration	Mode	Price
Nov 25, 2025	9:00 am - 5:00 pm EST	1 Day	online	$654	GTR
Dec 09, 2025	9:00 am - 5:00 pm EST	1 Day	online	$654	GTR
Dec 23, 2025	9:00 am - 5:00 pm EST	1 Day	online	$654	GTR
Jan 05, 2026	9:00 am - 5:00 pm EST	1 Day	online	$654	GTR
Jan 26, 2026	9:00 am - 5:00 pm EST	1 Day	online	$654	GTR
Feb 02, 2026	9:00 am - 5:00 pm EST	1 Day	online	$654	GTR
Mar 16, 2026	9:00 am - 5:00 pm EST	1 Day	online	$654	GTR
Mar 30, 2026	9:00 am - 5:00 pm EST	1 Day	online	$654	GTR

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What you will learn

Understand and configure GitHub Advanced Security features.?
Implement Dependabot for automated dependency updates.?
Set up and manage secret scanning to protect sensitive information.?
Configure code scanning using CodeQL for vulnerability detection.?
Analyze and interpret CodeQL scan results.?
Administer security policies and manage sensitive data within GitHub.?

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📘 GH-500T00: GitHub Advanced Security Outline

Introduction to GitHub Advanced Security

Define GHAS and the importance of its integral features
How to utilize GHAS to get the most impact
Understand GHAS and its role in the security ecosystem

Configure Dependabot security updates on your GitHub repo

Manage your dependencies on GitHub
Dependabot alerts
Dependabot security updates
Manage Dependabot notifications and reports
Dependency review
Exercise - Configure Dependabot security updates

Configure and use secret scanning in your GitHub repository

What is secret scanning?
Configure secret scanning
Use secret scanning
Exercise

Configure code scanning on GitHub

What is code scanning?
Enable code scanning with third party tools
Configure code scanning
Configure code scanning exercise

Identify security vulnerabilities in your codebase by using CodeQL

Prepare a database for CodeQL
Run CodeQL in a database
Understand CodeQL results
Troubleshoot CodeQL results

Code scanning with GitHub CodeQL

What is CodeQL?
How does CodeQL analyze code?
What is QL?
Code scanning and CodeQL
Customize your code scanning workflow with CodeQL - Part 1
Exercise - Reference a CodeQL query
Customize your code scanning workflow with CodeQL - Part 2
Use the CodeQL CLI
Customize languages and builds for code scanning
Exercise - Configure a CodeQL language matrix

GitHub administration for GitHub Advanced Security

What is GitHub Advanced Security?
Enable GitHub Advanced Security
Manage access to GitHub Advanced Security
Manage the GitHub Advanced Security features and alerts

Manage sensitive data and security policies within GitHub

Setting security policies
Create and manage repository rulesets
Reporting and logging
Exercise

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