Security News > 2022 > December > GitHub rolls out free secret scanning for all public repositories
GitHub is rolling out support for the free scanning of exposed secrets to all public repositories on its code hosting platform.
Secret scanning is a security option that organizations can enable for additional repository scanning to detect accidental exposure of known types of secrets.
Previously, the secret scanning service was only available to orgs using GitHub Enterprise Cloud with a GitHub Advanced Security license.
"Today, we're starting to roll out secret scanning to all free public repositories in the GitHub community, for free," GitHub's.
"We'll begin our gradual public beta rollout of secret scanning for public repositories today and expect all users to have the feature by the end of January 2023.".
Detailed information on how to enable secret scanning for your repositories on GitHub's documentation website and more details about secret scanning capabilities are available here.