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Viewing the security overview

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Navigate to the different views available in the security overview

Who can use this feature

Organization owners and security managers can access the security overview for organizations and view their organization's repositories via the enterprise-level security overview. Enterprise owners can use the enterprise-level security overview to view all repositories in their enterprise's organizations. Members of a team can see the security overview for repositories that the team has admin privileges for.

The security overview for your organization is available if you have a license for GitHub Advanced Security. For more information, see "About GitHub Advanced Security."

Viewing the security overview for an organization

  1. On your GitHub Enterprise Server instance, navigate to the main page of the organization.

  2. Under your organization name, click Security. Organization security button

  3. To view aggregate information about alert types, click Show more. Show more button

  4. Optionally, filter the list of alerts. You can click multiple filters in the drop-down filter menus to narrow your search. You can also type search qualifiers in the Search repositories field. For more information about the available qualifiers, see "Filtering alerts in the security overview." The drop-down filter menus and Search repositories field in the security overview

  5. Alternatively and optionally, use the sidebar on the left to filter information per security feature. On each page, you can use filters that are specific to that feature to fine-tune your search. Screenshot of the code scanning-specific page

Viewing alerts across your organization

  1. On your GitHub Enterprise Server instance, navigate to the main page of the organization.
  2. Under your organization name, click Security. Organization security button
  3. In the security sidebar, select the subset of alerts you want to view. View alert subset
  4. Optionally, filter the list of alerts. Each view has its own selection of available filters. You can click multiple filters in the drop-down filter menus to narrow your search. You can also type search qualifiers in the search field. For more information about the available qualifiers, see "Filtering alerts in the security overview." The drop-down filter menus and Search repositories field in the secret scanning view

Viewing the security overview for an enterprise

  1. Navigate to GitHub.com.

  2. In the top-right corner of GitHub.com, click your profile photo, then click Your enterprises. "Your enterprises" in drop-down menu for profile photo on GitHub Enterprise Server

  3. In the list of enterprises, click the enterprise you want to view. Name of an enterprise in list of your enterprises

  4. In the left sidebar, click Code Security.

  5. Alternatively and optionally, use the sidebar on the left to filter information per security feature. On each page, you can use filters that are specific to that feature to fine-tune your search.

Viewing alerts for a repository

  1. On your GitHub Enterprise Server instance, navigate to the main page of the repository.
  2. Under your repository name, click Security. Repository security tab
  3. In the security sidebar, select the view you want to open. Repository view alert subset
  4. Optionally, filter the list of alerts. Each view has its own selection of available filters. You can click multiple filters in the drop-down filter menus to narrow your search. You can also type search qualifiers in the search field. For more information about the available qualifiers, see "Filtering alerts in the security overview." Drop down filter menus in the repository secret scanning alerts view

Viewing the security overview for a team

  1. In the top right corner of GitHub Enterprise Server, click your profile photo, then click Your organizations. Your organizations in the profile menu

  2. Click the name of your organization. Organization name in list of organizations

  3. Under your organization name, click Teams.

    Teams tab

  4. On the Teams tab, click the name of the team. List of the organization's teams

  5. At the top of the team's page, click Security. Team security overview

  6. Optionally, filter the list of alerts. You can click multiple filters in the drop-down filter menus to narrow your search. You can also type search qualifiers in the Search repositories field. For more information about the available qualifiers, see "Filtering alerts in the security overview." The drop-down filter menus and Search repositories field in the security overview