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Concepts for secret security
Learn core concepts for GitHub's secret security features.
About secret scanning
GitHub scans repositories for known types of secrets, to prevent fraudulent use of secrets that were committed accidentally.
About push protection
Push protection blocks contributors from pushing secrets to a repository and generates an alert whenever a contributor bypasses the block. You can apply push protection at repository or organization level.
About secret scanning alerts
Learn about the different types of secret scanning alerts.
About delegated bypass for push protection
You can control which teams or roles have the ability to bypass push protection in your organization or repository.