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How-tos for detecting secret leaks
Learn how to use GitHub's tools to detect secret leaks.
Enabling secret scanning for your repository
You can configure how GitHub scans your repositories for leaked secrets and generates alerts.
Enabling secret scanning for non-provider patterns
You can enable secret scanning to detect additional potential secrets at the repository level.