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Managing security and analysis settings for your repository

You can control features that secure and analyze the code in your project on GitHub.

Who can use this feature?

People with admin permissions to a repository can manage security and analysis settings for the repository.

Enabling or disabling security and analysis features for public repositories

You can manage a subset of security and analysis features for public repositories. Other features are permanently enabled, including dependency graph and secret scanning alerts for partners.

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.

  2. Under your repository name, click Settings. If you cannot see the "Settings" tab, select the dropdown menu, then click Settings.

    Screenshot of a repository header showing the tabs. The "Settings" tab is highlighted by a dark orange outline.

  3. In the "Security" section of the sidebar, click Code security.

  4. Under "Code security", to the right of the feature, click Disable or Enable.

Enabling or disabling security and analysis features for private repositories

You can manage the security and analysis features for your private or internal repository. Organizations that use GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Advanced Security have extra options available. For more information, see the GitHub Enterprise Cloud documentation.

If you enable security and analysis features, GitHub performs read-only analysis on your repository.

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.

  2. Under your repository name, click Settings. If you cannot see the "Settings" tab, select the dropdown menu, then click Settings.

    Screenshot of a repository header showing the tabs. The "Settings" tab is highlighted by a dark orange outline.

  3. In the "Security" section of the sidebar, click Code security.

  4. Under "Code security", to the right of the feature, click Disable or Enable.

Granting access to security alerts

Security alerts for a repository are visible to people with write, maintain, or admin access to the repository and, when the repository is owned by an organization, organization owners. You can give additional teams and people access to the alerts.

Organization owners and repository administrators can only grant access to view security alerts, such as secret scanning alerts, to people or teams who have write access to the repo.

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.

  2. Under your repository name, click Settings. If you cannot see the "Settings" tab, select the dropdown menu, then click Settings.

    Screenshot of a repository header showing the tabs. The "Settings" tab is highlighted by a dark orange outline.

  3. In the "Security" section of the sidebar, click Code security.

  4. Under "Access to alerts", in the search field, start typing the name of the person or team you'd like to find, then click a name in the list of matches.

  5. Click Save changes.

Removing access to security alerts

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.

  2. Under your repository name, click Settings. If you cannot see the "Settings" tab, select the dropdown menu, then click Settings.

    Screenshot of a repository header showing the tabs. The "Settings" tab is highlighted by a dark orange outline.

  3. In the "Security" section of the sidebar, click Code security.

  4. Under "Access to alerts", to the right of the person or team whose access you'd like to remove, click .

    Screenshot of the list of users with access to alerts. To the right of @octocat, an x icon is outlined in dark orange.

  5. Click Save changes.

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