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Configuring additional secret scanning settings for your enterprise

Learn how to configure additional secret scanning settings for your enterprise.

Who can use this feature?

Site administrators

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:

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 Enterprise Server, click your profile photo, then click Enterprise settings.

    Screenshot of the dropdown menu shown when you click the profile photo on GitHub Enterprise Server. The "Enterprise settings" option is outlined.

  2. On the left side of the page, in the enterprise account sidebar, click Settings.

  3. In the left sidebar, click Code security.

  4. Scroll down the page to the "Additional settings" section.

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 .