Exam GH-500 Topic 3 Question 18 Discussion

GitHub secret scanning detects and alerts on sensitive data exposure, such as API keys and credentials, in your code repositories. Use it to protect your secrets, ensure secure and compliant development practices, and reduce the risk of data breaches and unauthorized access.
GitHub has scanned public repositories for secrets (like API keys and tokens) for several years.
Secret scanning protects our partners and our customers from unauthorized use of the services protected by those secrets. Just this month, 8% of active GitHub repositories committed a secret that was caught by secret scanning.
At GitHub Satellite, we announced secret scanning for private repositories, part of GitHub Advanced Security. We're bringing the same lightning-fast scanning engine and broad set of 24 partners (including all the major cloud providers and many common SaaS providers) to your private repository, so you can catch secrets as soon as they're checked in. Repository admins will be notified about any commit that contains a secret, and can quickly view all detected secrets in the repo's Security tab.