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Best practices for organizations

Learn GitHub-recommended practices for your organization.

Assign multiple owners

If an organization only has one owner, the organization's projects can become inaccessible if the owner is unreachable. To ensure that no one will lose access to a project, we recommend that at least two people within each organization have the owner role. For more information, see "Maintaining ownership continuity for your organization."

Use teams

We recommend using teams to facilitate collaboration in your organization. For more information, see "About teams."

We recommend keeping teams visible whenever possible and reserving secret teams for sensitive situations. For more information, see "Changing team visibility."

Use security overview

Security overview provides high-level summaries of the security landscape of an organization or enterprise and makes it easy to identify repositories that require intervention. For more information, see "About security overview."