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GitHub Advanced Security (GH-500)

Enhance your GitHub security skills with GitHub Advanced Security (GH-500). Learn how to protect repositories, manage vulnerabilities, and secure your code with advanced GitHub security tools.

course: GitHub Advanced Security (GH-500)

Duration: 1 day

Format: Virtual or Classroom

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Overview

The GitHub Advanced Security (GH-500) course provides an in-depth look into advanced security features on GitHub. Learn how to secure repositories, prevent vulnerabilities, and manage compliance with GitHub’s security tools. This course covers secure coding practices, dependency management, and security configurations. After completing the course and passing the exam, you will be certified in GitHub Advanced Security, demonstrating your expertise in securing development workflows.

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Who is this course for?

Who is the GitHub Advanced Security (GH-500) course for?

This course in intended for students who want to understand and implement advanced security practices with the help of GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS). They will learn how to significantly enhance software development processes and create a more resilient and secure development ecosystem using developer-first solutions to unlock the ability to keep code, supply chain, and secrets secure before you push to production. They will learn how GHAS gives security teams visibility into the cross-organizational security posture and supply chain and unparalleled access to curated security intelligence from millions of developers and security researchers around the world.

Curriculum

What you will learn during our GitHub Advanced Security (GH-500) course.

  • This module will help you become familiar with GitHub's Advanced Security features (GHAS) and best practices. As you learn about these features, you'll identify critical areas for eliminating security gaps.
  • Define GHAS and the importance of its integral features
  • How to utilize GHAS to get the most impact
  • Understand GHAS and its role in the security ecosystem
  • Manage your dependencies with GitHub Dependabot.
  • Manage your dependencies on GitHub
  • Dependabot alerts
  • Dependabot security updates
  • Manage Dependabot notifications and reports
  • Dependency review
  • Exercise Configure Dependabot security updates
  • Understand how secret scanning works to configure and use it efficiently.
  • What is secret scanning?
  • Configure secret scanning
  • Use secret scanning
  • Exercise
  • This module introduces you to code scanning and its features. You'll learn how to implement code scanning using CodeQL, third party tools, and GitHub Actions.
  • What is code scanning?
  • Enable code scanning with third party tools
  • Configure code scanning
  • Configure code scanning exercise
  • In this module, you learn about CodeQL and how you can use it to analyze the code in your GitHub repository and identify security vulnerabilities.
  • Prepare a database for CodeQL
  • Run CodeQL in a database
  • Understand CodeQL results
  • Troubleshoot CodeQL results
  • Learn how to use CodeQL, a powerful static analysis tool, to implement code scanning on GitHub.
  • What is CodeQL?
  • How does CodeQL analyze code?
  • What is QL?
  • Code scanning and CodeQL
  • Customize your code scanning workflow with CodeQL Part 1
  • Exercise Reference a CodeQL query
  • Customize your code scanning workflow with CodeQL Part 2
  • Use the CodeQL CLI
  • Customize languages and builds for code scanning
  • Exercise Configure a CodeQL language matrix
  • Understand where GitHub Advanced Security fits in your software development lifecycle and how to enable and roll it out in your organization.
  • What is GitHub Advanced Security?
  • Enable GitHub Advanced Security
  • Manage access to GitHub Advanced Security
  • Manage the GitHub Advanced Security features and alerts
  • Familiarize yourself with GitHub's basic security tools, which prepare repositories for secure development and industrystandard response to threats.
  • Setting security policies
  • Create and manage repository rulesets
  • Reporting and logging

Preparation

How to best be prepared for our GitHub Advanced Security (GH-500) course.

  • Orange-check Basic understanding of Git and GitHub workflows.
  • Orange-check Familiarity with software security concepts and practices.
  • Orange-check Experience with version control and GitHub repositories is recommended.

Meet our instructors

Meet some of the Readynez Instructors you can meet on your course. They are experts, passionate about what they do, and dedicated to give back to their industry, their field, and those who want to learn, explore, and advance in their careers.

Michel Aguilera

Michel Aguilera delivers high-impact, LIVE instructor-led training in Microsoft Cloud, infrastructure and cybersecurity for professionals seeking real-world skills and certification readiness. With 20+ years of global experience and deep technical expertise, he helps teams master modern IT environments - from hybrid cloud to secure digital workplaces - with clarity and practical guidance.

Meet the Instructor: Michel Aguilera

When it comes to real-world experience in cloud, cybersecurity, and infrastructure, Michel Aguilera brings the full package.

With over 20 years in IT, Michel has worn many hats: consultant, trainer, project manager, and integration expert. Whether it’s large-scale Windows migrations, Datacenter consolidations, ITSM rollouts, cloud implementations, and cybersecurity solutions, he brings clarity, structure, and deep technical expertise to the table.

Michel is not only a Microsoft and cybersecurity specialist, but also fluent in five languages, making him a sought-after instructor across borders and industries. 
His multicultural perspective and agile approach help organizations navigate everything from hybrid infrastructures to the adoption of AI tools like Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT.

As a passionate trainer and consultant, he empowers professionals to implement resilient, secure, and scalable IT environments, keeping pace with the ever-evolving tech landscape.

With Michel, you can expect a training experience that is structured, practical, multilingual if needed, and deeply insightful.

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Julian Sharp

Julian Sharp delivers high-quality, LIVE instructor-led training in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform for professionals seeking real-world skills and certification readiness. With decades of industry experience and deep technical expertise, he helps learners master complex solutions efficiently.

Meet the Instructor: Julian Sharp
MCT | MVP | Solution Architect | Dynamics 365 & Power Platform Expert

With 20+ years of experience and over 16 years specializing in Dynamics CRM/365 and Power Platform, Julian has trained thousands of professionals and helped organizations solve real business challenges using Microsoft technologies.

A Microsoft Certified Trainer since 2007 and a Microsoft MVP, Julian brings a rare combination of deep technical knowledge and a practical, business-first mindset.

He’s not just an instructor - he’s a community leader, consultant, and solution architect trusted by enterprises across the globe.

  • Microsoft MVP – Business Applications

  • Specialist in Dynamics 365, Power Platform & Azure

  • Developer of Microsoft courseware
  • Speaker & mentor at Microsoft community events

Ready to build solutions with one of the best in the field?

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FAQ

FAQs for the GitHub Advanced Security (GH-500) course.

This course teaches advanced security tools and techniques for securing GitHub repositories, managing vulnerabilities, and protecting code integrity. After passing the exam, you will be certified in GitHub Advanced Security.

Familiarize yourself with GitHub security features, secure coding practices, and vulnerability management. The course covers practical examples and security configurations.

Basic knowledge of Git, GitHub, and software security practices is required. Experience with GitHub workflows and security tools will be beneficial.

The course costs €705, which includes the training materials and exam fee.

Topics include GitHub security configuration, vulnerability management, secure coding practices, and managing compliance with GitHub Advanced Security tools.

Yes, this certification demonstrates expertise in securing GitHub environments and is valuable for professionals working in security, DevOps, and development roles.

The course is completed in one day, with certification granted after passing the exam.

Yes, the exam is available online.

The exam requires practical knowledge of GitHub security features. Preparation through the course will help you confidently pass the exam.

The passing score is typically 70%.

Stay updated with the latest GitHub security updates and continue applying security best practices in your development projects.

Professionals in GitHub security roles can earn competitive salaries, typically ranging from €70,000 to €120,000 annually, depending on experience and location.

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