2Configure and Use Secret Protection

• 2.1Enabling Secret Protection and Preventing Exposure

  Understand enabling/configuring Secret Protection at repo/org levels, behavior differences for public vs private/enterprise, Push Protection that prevents exposure at the source, and validity checks with prioritized alerting for high-confidence secrets.

• 2.2Managing Secret Protection Alerts, Policies, and Custom Patterns

  Understand the Secret Protection alert lifecycle (creation, status, dismissal) and appropriate remediation, role-based/delegated bypass policies, configuring alert recipients and exclusions, and creating/managing custom secret patterns.