This course will show you how to build, host, and maintain a secure repository on GitHub. By following simple security best practices, you can rest easy knowing your project is secure for contributors and contributions today and in the future.

Collaboration is key to building great software. As you welcome more contributions, keeping your project secure becomes more important than ever.

In this course, you’ll learn how to:

• Enable security features for repositories hosted in GitHub
• Detect vulnerable dependencies in repositories when notified by GitHub's security alerts
• Utilize best practices to keep sensitive data out of repositories

This course has a dedicated message board on the GitHub Community Forum. Create a post to start a conversation, discuss this course with GitHub Trainers and participants, or troubleshoot any issues you encounter.