Question

Your organization has enabled Secret Protection with Push Protection across all repositories. Leadership wants to reduce the frequency of developers bypassing Push Protection blocks, but still allow a small trusted group to bypass when there is a legitimate business need (for example, committing a documented test placeholder). As the security admin, which configuration best achieves this control?

Accepted Answer

Configure a delegated bypass policy so that only members of a designated bypass list can approve bypass requests, while all other users must submit a request that is routed for review

Answer

Disable Push Protection entirely and rely on secret scanning alerts to catch any secrets after they are pushed to the default branch

Answer

Add each trusted user's known test placeholder strings as custom secret patterns so those specific values are never blocked

Answer

Turn on branch protection rules requiring two reviewers on every pull request so that secrets are caught during code review