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Managing GitHub Advanced Security for your enterprise

You can configure Advanced Security and manage use by your enterprise to suit your organization's needs.

GitHub Advanced Security is available for enterprise accounts on GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0 or higher. For more information about upgrading your GitHub Enterprise Server instance, see "About upgrades to new releases" and refer to the Upgrade assistant to find the upgrade path from your current release version.

Enabling GitHub Advanced Security for your enterprise

You can configure GitHub Enterprise Server to include GitHub Advanced Security. This provides extra features that help users find and fix security problems in their code.

Configuring code scanning for your appliance

You can enable, configure and disable code scanning for your GitHub Enterprise Server instance. Code scanning allows users to scan code for vulnerabilities and errors.

Configuring secret scanning for your appliance

You can enable, configure, and disable secret scanning for your GitHub Enterprise Server instance. Secret scanning allows users to scan code for accidentally committed secrets.

Overview of GitHub Advanced Security deployment

Help your company successfully prepare to adopt GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) by reviewing and understanding these best practices, rollout examples, and our enterprise-tested phased approach.

Deploying GitHub Advanced Security in your enterprise

Learn how to plan, prepare, and implement a phased approach for rolling out GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) in your enterprise.