GitHub Advanced Security boot camp – hands-on workshop

Software supply chain attacks and secrets leakages are still one of the biggest threat vectors for software companies. But supply chain security does not have to be a burden and slow down development! With GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) you can incorporate security into your development process with a developer first mindset.

This hands-on workshop is designed for developers that want to improve their security posture by giving them practical exercises to get to know GHAS.

The workshop covers:

- Dependency graph, dependabot, and dependency review
- Secret scanning and push protection
- Code scanning and pull request integration
- Include other security tools in GHAS
- CodeQL and writing custom queries
- Rolling out GHAS in your organization

Lessons learned from enabling 1000's of GitHub Copilot users

GitHub Copilot is the worlds most widely adopted AI developer tool. After enabling thousands of users we have learned that this is not a tool you can give people a license for and expect them to be able to get the most out of it. There is a learning curve that needs to be acknowledged.

Learn from Rob the practical insights and best practices for using GitHub Copilot to your benefit, and how to share these lessons with your team(s) in an efficient way.

Hands-on workshop GitHub Code to Cloud

In this Hands-on workshop we will teach you how to use all the great features GitHub has to offer. We will start with an overview how to come from Idea to Code by using GitHub Discussions, Issues, Pages and Wiki. Next we will move the idea's to code and start using the Git features. From here we dive in to the use of Branch Protection Rules, Code Owners, Actions for CI, CD and Deployments to the Azure Cloud. We will also have a look at how GitHub can help you in your Secure Development Lifecycle with Credential scanning, Package Vulnerability Scanning and Code Scanning to expose programming mistakes that might lead to vulnerabilities in the future. After this Hands-on workshop, you know what GitHub has to offer to you and your organization to implement Secure and Compliant DevOps with ease.

Protect your code with GitHub security features

Creating modern software has a lot of moving parts. We all build on top of the shoulders of giants by leveraging closed/open source packages or containers that other people have shared. That makes securing our software a lot more complex as well!

In this session you'll learn what possible attack vectors you need to look for, how to protect yourself against them and how to leverage GitHub's features to make your life easier!

Topics:
- Signed Commits
- Dependabot updates
- Dependency scanning for known vulnerabilities
- Secret scanning (and revoking) out of the box
- Using CodeQL

How to use GitHub Actions with security in mind

When working in the real world with continuous integration / continuous deployment, you have to take care of your pipelines and the things they have access to.

- Who can push code into to an environment?
- Who could read and change the connection strings to the database?
- Who can create new resources in your cloud environment?
- Do you trust your third party extensions?
- What part of the network does your pipeline have access to?

I'll go over each of these aspects of your GitHub Actions Workflows and show you what to look for and how to improve your security stance without locking every DevOps engineer out.

Target audience: DevOps engineers on GitHub

Protect yourself against supply chain attacks

As an industry, we are using third party packages and building components for lots of things. In this supply chain, there are lots of places for vulnerabilities. They can then be used to attack your DevOps pipelines!

In this session, I will go over some common attack examples and show you a way to prevent them from happening. There are frameworks available in the industry that guide you through the process of becoming more mature in protecting not only your source code and application but also the packages you use and the pipelines you build them with. I'll demo some of GitHub's features that help preventing these types of attacks

Given at NDC Security in Oslo - April 2022

GitHub Actions: beyond CI/CD

With GitHub Actions you can do so much more then just CI/CD! I’ve validated the links on my blogposts, automated my issue management and provided easy configuration of my trainings that sets up entire environments for the attendees!

Join this session for more examples how you can use GitHub Actions to make your life easier!

Brand new session!

Collaborating effectively using GitHub

A lot of teams work on GitHub and use only a small part of the available features. In this session, Rob will show you how to use GitHub to handle team processes like on-boarding a new team member (while skipping the boring text documents or wiki pages), setting up daily scrums, and even sending out updates of team accomplishments at the end of your sprint. We'll explain how to set up an effective team environment using GitHub, with demos from open source repositories that'll help you get started right away!

Session from GitHub Universe 2023, lots of positive feedback on it, where people really learned new things.

Transitioning to DevSecOps: A Pathway for Engineers

Explore the world of DevSecOps in this session designed for engineers. We’ll discuss the basics of DevSecOps, delve into Application Security (AppSec), and explore the importance of supply chain and pipeline security. Gain practical knowledge and insights into transitioning from a focus on engineering to include DevSecOps practices and elevate the overall security of your application.