Configuring additional secret scanning settings for your enterprise

About additional settings for secret scanning

There are some additional secret scanning settings that cannot be applied to repositories using security configurations, so you must configure these settings separately:

• Configuring a resource link for push protection
• Configuring AI detection to find additional secrets

These additional settings only apply to repositories with both GitHub Advanced Security and secret scanning enabled.

Accessing the additional settings for secret scanning

1. In the top-right corner of GitHub, click your profile photo.
2. Depending on your environment, click Your enterprise, or click Your enterprises then click the enterprise you want to view.
3. On the left side of the page, in the enterprise account sidebar, click Settings.
4. In the left sidebar, click Code security.
5. Scroll down the page to the "Additional settings" section.

Configuring a resource link for push protection

To provide context for developers when secret scanning blocks a commit, you can display a link with more information on why the commit was blocked.

1. Under "Additional settings", to the right of "Resource link for push protection", click .
2. In the text box, type the link to the desired resource, then click .

Configuring AI detection to find additional secrets

Copilot secret scanning's generic secret detection is an AI-powered expansion of secret scanning that scans and creates alerts for unstructured secrets, such as passwords.

1. Under "Additional settings", to the right of "Use AI detection to find additional secrets", ensure the setting is toggled to "On".

To learn more about generic secrets, see Responsible detection of generic secrets with Copilot secret scanning.