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Viewing security information for your organization or enterprise

View, sort, and filter security alerts and coverage information from across your organization or enterprise, and enable security features for their repositories.

Who can use this feature?

All enterprises and their organizations have a security overview. If you use GitHub Advanced Security features you will see additional information. For more information, see "About GitHub Advanced Security."

About security overview

You can gain insights into the overall security landscape of your organization and view summaries of alerts for repositories owned by your organization. You can also monitor adoption of code security features across your organization.

Assessing adoption of code security features

You can use security overview to see which teams and repositories have already enabled code security features, and identify any that are not yet protected.

Assessing your code security risk

You can use security overview to see which teams and repositories are affected by security alerts, and identify repositories for urgent remedial action.

Filtering alerts in security overview

Use filters to view specific categories of alerts

Enabling security features for multiple repositories

You can use security overview to select a subset of repositories and enable security features for them all.