Securing your organization

Introduction

This guide shows you how to configure security features for an organization. Your organization's security needs are unique and you may not need to enable every security feature. For more information, see "GitHub security features."

某些功能可用于 所有存储库。 使用 GitHub Advanced Security 的企业可以使用其他功能。 有关详细信息，请参阅“关于 GitHub Advanced Security”。

Managing access to your organization

You can use roles to control what actions people can take in your organization. For more information, see "Roles in an organization."

Creating a default security policy

You can create a default security policy that will display in any of your organization's public repositories that do not have their own security policy. For more information, see "Creating a default community health file."

Managing Dependabot alerts and the dependency graph

企业所有者可以为企业配置 依赖项关系图和 Dependabot alerts。 有关详细信息，请参阅 “为企业启用依赖项关系图和 “为企业启用 Dependabot ”。

For more information, see "About Dependabot alerts," "Exploring the dependencies of a repository," and "Managing security and analysis settings for your organization."

Managing dependency review

Dependency review is an Advanced Security feature that lets you visualize dependency changes in pull requests before they are merged into your repositories. For more information, see "About dependency review."

Dependency review is available when dependency graph is enabled for your GitHub Enterprise Server instance and you enable Advanced Security for the organization (see below).

Managing GitHub Advanced Security

If your enterprise has an Advanced Security license, you can enable or disable Advanced Security features.

1. Click your profile photo, then click Organizations.
2. Click Settings next to your organization.
3. Click Security & analysis.
4. Click Enable all or Disable all next to GitHub Advanced Security.
5. Optionally, select Automatically enable for new private repositories.

For more information, see "About GitHub Advanced Security" and "Managing security and analysis settings for your organization."

Configuring secret scanning

Secret scanning is an Advanced Security feature that scans repositories for secrets that are insecurely stored.

Secret scanning is available if your enterprise uses Advanced Security.

You can enable or disable secret scanning for all repositories across your organization that have Advanced Security enabled.

1. Click your profile photo, then click Organizations.
2. Click Settings next to your organization.
3. Click Security & analysis.
4. Click Enable all or Disable all next to Secret scanning (GitHub Advanced Security repositories only).
5. Optionally, select Automatically enable for private repositories added to Advanced Security.

For more information, see "Managing security and analysis settings for your organization."

Configuring code scanning

Code scanning is an Advanced Security feature that scans code for security vulnerabilities and errors.

Code scanning is available if your enterprise uses Advanced Security.

Code scanning is configured at the repository level. For more information, see "Setting up code scanning for a repository."

Next steps

You can view and manage alerts from security features to address dependencies and vulnerabilities in your code. For more information, see "Viewing and updating Dependabot alerts," "Managing code scanning for your repository," and "Managing alerts from secret scanning."

You can view, filter, and sort security alerts for repositories owned by your organization in the security overview. For more information, see "About the security overview."