GitHub has announced the general availability of a new security feature called push protection, which aims to prevent developers from inadvertently leaking keys and other secrets in their code.
The Microsoft-owned cloud-based repository hosting platform, which began testing the feature a year ago, said it’s also extending push protection to all public repositories at no extra cost.
The functionality is designed to work hand-in-hand with the existing secret scanning feature, which scans repositories for known secret formats to prevent their fraudulent use and avert potentially serious consequences.
