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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.

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Enabling or disabling security and analysis features

You can manage the security and analysis features for your repository. If your enterprise or organization has a license for GitHub Advanced Security, then extra options are available. For more information, see "About GitHub Advanced Security."

  1. On your GitHub Enterprise Server instance, 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 and analysis.

  4. Under "Code security and analysis", to the right of the feature, click Disable or Enable. The control for "GitHub Advanced Security" is disabled if your enterprise has no available licenses for Advanced Security.

    Note: If you disable GitHub Advanced Security, secret scanning and code scanning are disabled. Any workflows, SARIF uploads, or API calls for code scanning will fail. If GitHub Advanced Security is re-enabled, code scanning will return to its previous state.

Granting access to security alerts

Security alerts for a repository are visible to people with 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 your GitHub Enterprise Server instance, 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 and analysis.

  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 your GitHub Enterprise Server instance, 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 and analysis.

  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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