/ghas-bootcamp

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GitHub Advanced Security Bootcamp

Prerequisites • Resources

This bootcamp is designed to help familiarize you with GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) so that you can better understand how to use it in your own repositories.

📣 Prerequisites

To participate in the workshop you need a GitHub account and need to be invited to the workshop organization ghas-bootcamp. If your repository hasn't been automatically created in the workshop organization, either click Use this template and create a repository under this organization, or create a new repository and push a copy of the ghas-bootcamp repository to an organization with GHAS enabled.

git clone https://github.com/boxboat-demo/ghas-bootcamp.git
cd ghas-bootcamp
git remote set-url origin git@github.com:{org-or-username}/{repo-name}.git

🏫 Agenda

We will go over the following topics:

Day one

Day one learning

  • Comprehensive overview of GHAS
  • Securing your supply chain with dependency management
  • Secret scanning
  • Rolling out GHAS in your organization
  • Q&A

Day one: Dependabot and Secret scanning exercises

Dependabot: link
  • Enabling Dependabot alerts
  • Reviewing the dependency graph
  • Viewing and managing results
  • Enabling Dependabot security updates
  • Configuring Dependabot security updates
  • Working with Dependency Review
Secret scanning: link
  • Enabling secret scanning
  • Viewing and managing results
  • Excluding files from secret scanning
  • Custom patterns for secret scanning
  • Managing access to alerts
Day two

Day two learning

  • Explore how code scanning works
  • What is Security Overview?
  • CodeQL Demo
  • Final Q&A

Day Two: Code scanning + CodeQL demo

Code scanning: link
  • Enabling code scanning
  • Reviewing any failed analysis jobs
  • Using context and expressions to modify build
  • Reviewing and managing results
  • Triaging a result in a PR
  • Customizing CodeQL configuration
  • Adding your own code scanning suite to exclude rules
  • Understanding how to add a custom query
  • CodeQL demo

📚 Resources