Using advanced secret scanning and push protection features

Learn how you can customize secret scanning to meet the needs of your company.

Who can use this feature?

Secret scanning is available for the following repository types:

Organization-owned repositories with GitHub Secret Protection enabled
User-owned repositories for enterprises with GitHub Secret Protection enabled

Custom patterns

You can extend the capabilities of secret scanning to search for your own patterns. These custom patterns can range from your service API keys to connection strings into cloud resources.

Enabling delegated alert dismissal for secret scanning

You can use delegated alert dismissal to control who can dismiss an alert found by secret scanning.