Enabling secret scanning for non-provider patterns

You can enable secret scanning to detect additional potential secrets at the repository level.

Who can use this feature?

Repository owners, organization owners, security managers, and users with the admin role

Scanning for non-provider patterns is available for the following repositories:

  • Public, private, and internal repositories in organizations using GitHub Enterprise Cloud with GitHub Advanced Security enabled

In this article

Enabling scanning for non-provider patterns

Note: The detection of non-provider patterns is currently in beta and subject to change.

You can enable scanning for non-provider patterns. Non-provider patterns correspond to secrets such as private keys and they have a higher ratio of false positives.

For more information about non-provider patterns, see "Supported secret scanning patterns."

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.

  2. Under your repository name, click Settings. If you cannot see the "Settings" tab, select the dropdown menu, then click Settings.

    Screenshot of a repository header showing the tabs. The "Settings" tab is highlighted by a dark orange outline.

  3. In the "Security" section of the sidebar, click Code security and analysis.

  4. Under Secret scanning, to the right of "Non-provider patterns", click Enable.

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