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Viewing the security overview

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Navigate to the different views available in the security overview

Who can use this feature

Organization owners and security managers can access the organization-level security overview and view alerts across multiple organizations via the enterprise-level security overview. Enterprise owners can only view repositories and alerts for organizations where they are added as an organization owner or security manager. Organization members can access the organization-level security overview to view results for repositories where they have admin privileges or have been granted access to security alerts.

All organizations and enterprises have a security overview. If you use GitHub Advanced Security features, which are free for public repositories, you will see additional information. For more information, see "About GitHub Advanced Security."

The information shown in the security overview will vary according to your access to repositories, and on whether GitHub Advanced Security is used by those repositories.

Viewing the security overview for an organization

Note: The "Security Risk" and "Security Coverage" views are currently in beta and subject to change.

  1. On GitHub.com, navigate to the main page of the organization.
  2. Under your organization name, click Security. Organization security button
  3. To display a summary view, in the sidebar, click Risk or Coverage.
  4. Optionally, to focus on the information of greatest interest, select the Teams dropdown filter and search box.
  5. Optionally, use links in the "Dependabot", "code scanning", and "secret scanning" header summaries to filter results further. Screenshot of the "Security Risk" view on the "Security" tab for an organization. Illustrates information and filter options available in the view.
  6. Optionally, use the sidebar on the left to explore alerts for a specific security feature in greater detail. On each page, you can use filters that are specific to that feature to fine-tune your search. For more information about the available qualifiers, see "Filtering alerts in the security overview."

Viewing the security overview for an enterprise

Note: You can enable or disable security features that have a one-click setup directly from the Security Coverage view. For more information, see "About the security overview."

  1. Navigate to GitHub.com.

  2. In the top-right corner of GitHub.com, click your profile photo, then click Your enterprises. "Your enterprises" in drop-down menu for profile photo on GitHub Enterprise Cloud

  3. In the list of enterprises, click the enterprise you want to view.

  4. In the left sidebar, click Code Security.

  5. Optionally, use the sidebar on the left to explore alerts for a specific security feature in greater detail. On each page, you can use filters that are specific to that feature to fine-tune your search. For more information about the available qualifiers, see "Filtering alerts in the security overview."