Kevin Lewis

Real-World Security for Busy Developers

Stop shipping vulnerabilities and leaking secrets. Learn how to automate security inside your workflow, without sacrificing speed.

Real-World Security for Busy Developers
#1about 9 minutes

Why developers must take ownership of application security

The growing responsibility for security falls on developers due to the high cost of breaches and the scarcity of dedicated security specialists.

#2about 3 minutes

Prevent leaked secrets with push protection and scanning

GitHub's push protection blocks credentials from being committed, while secret scanning finds existing keys across your entire repository history.

#3about 9 minutes

Write and review secure code using AI-powered tools

Use GitHub Copilot for security education and code reviews, while CodeQL automatically finds vulnerabilities that Copilot Autofix can then resolve.

#4about 5 minutes

Manage vulnerable dependencies in your software supply chain

Use dependency review to check for vulnerabilities and license compliance in pull requests, and let Dependabot proactively create fixes for you.

#5about 1 minute

Drive security fixes with organization-wide campaigns

Security campaigns allow teams to prioritize and track the remediation of specific vulnerabilities across all repositories in an organization.

#6about 3 minutes

How security tools integrate into the developer workflow

A summary of how tools like push protection, code scanning, and Dependabot fit seamlessly into each stage of development from the IDE to production.

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