GH-500 - Configure and use Secret Protection - Section 2.2

Explain how push protection prevents secrets at the source, and describe validity checks and prioritized alerting for high-confidence secrets.

Explain how push protection blocks a commit containing a high-confidence secret before it reaches the remote, and describe how validity checks confirm whether a detected secret is still active. Distinguish the bypass push protection options available to developers and when each is appropriate.

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