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Secret scanning examines your code and git history to detect exposed credentials like cloud keys, tokens, and passwords. It maps exactly where these secrets exist across your repositories and flags whether they still remain in commit history.

Prioritizing credential rotation requires classifying leaked secrets by severity, exposure window, and current location. This approach generates a prioritized remediation plan so you can address the highest-risk credentials first and redeploy safely.

Cleaning up sensitive credentials from git history involves executing specific history cleanup commands to purge exposed secrets from past commits. After removing the traces, you follow verification checks to ensure the sensitive data is fully eradicated from the repository.

Yes, secret scanning supports organization-wide GitHub security audits by reviewing multiple repositories at scale. It applies the same pattern detection and exposure-window classification across the entire organization to identify leaked credentials during proactive security reviews.

You can use secret scanning for incident response investigations involving exposed tokens. It rapidly identifies the leaked credentials, evaluates how long they have been exposed, and produces remediation guidance to quickly secure the environment.