Creating a custom security configuration for your enterprise

About custom security configurations

We recommend securing your enterprise with the GitHub-recommended security configuration, then evaluating the security findings on your repositories before configuring custom security configurations. For more information, see Applying the GitHub-recommended security configuration to your enterprise.

With custom security configurations, you can create collections of enablement settings for GitHub's security products to meet the specific security needs of your enterprise. For example, you can create a different custom security configuration for each organization or group of organizations to reflect their unique security requirements and compliance obligations.

Creating a custom security configuration

1. En la esquina superior derecha de GitHub, haz clic en la fotografía del perfil.

2. En función de tu entorno, haz clic en Your enterpriseo en Your enterprises y, a continuación, haz clic en la empresa que deseas ver.

3. En el lado izquierdo de la página, en la barra lateral de la cuenta de empresa, haz clic en Configuración.

4. In the left sidebar, click Code security.

5. In the "Configurations" section, click New configuration.

6. To help identify your custom security configuration and clarify its purpose on the "Configurations" page, name your configuration and create a description.

7. In the "GitHub Advanced Security features" row, choose whether to include or exclude GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) features. If you plan to apply a custom security configuration with GHAS features to private repositories, you must have available GHAS licenses for each active unique committer to those repositories, or the features will not be enabled. See Acerca de la facturación de GitHub Advanced Security.

8. In the "Dependency graph and Dependabot" section of the security settings table, choose whether you want to enable, disable, or keep the existing settings for the following security features:

   • Dependency graph. To learn about dependency graph, see Acerca del gráfico de dependencias.

   • Automatic dependency submission. To learn about automatic dependency submission, see Configuración del envío automático de dependencias para el repositorio.

   • Dependabot alerts. To learn about Dependabot alerts, see Acerca de las alertas Dependabot.

   • Security updates. To learn about security updates, see Sobre las actualizaciones de seguridad de Dependabot.

   Note

   You cannot manually change the enablement settings for vulnerable function calls. If GitHub Advanced Security features and Dependabot alerts are enabled, vulnerable function calls is also enabled. Otherwise, it is disabled.

9. In the "Code scanning" section of the security settings table, choose whether you want to enable, disable, or keep the existing settings for code scanning default setup. To learn about default setup, see Establecimiento de la configuración predeterminada para el examen del código.

10. In the "Secret scanning" section of the security settings table, choose whether you want to enable, disable, or keep the existing settings for the following security features:

    • Alerts. To learn about secret scanning, see Acerca del examen de secretos.
    • Non-provider patterns. To learn more about scanning for non-provider patterns, see Patrones de examen de secretos admitidos and Visualización y filtrado de alertas de análisis de secretos.
    • Push protection. To learn about push protection, see Acerca de la protección de inserción.

11. In the "Private vulnerability reporting" section of the security settings table, choose whether you want to enable, disable, or keep the existing settings for private vulnerability reporting. To learn about private vulnerability reporting, see Configuración de informes de vulnerabilidades privadas para un repositorio.

12. Optionally, in the "Policy" section, you can choose to automatically apply the security configuration to newly created repositories depending on their visibility. Select the None dropdown menu, then click Public, Private and internal, or All repositories.

13. Optionally, in the "Policy" section, you can enforce the configuration and block repository owners from changing features that are enabled or disabled by the configuration (features that are not set aren't enforced). Next to "Enforce configuration", select Enforce from the dropdown menu.

    Note

    If a user in your enterprise attempts to change the enablement status of a feature in an enforced configuration using the REST API, the API call will appear to succeed, but no enablement statuses will change.

    Some situations can break the enforcement of security configurations for a repository. For example, the enablement of code scanning will not apply to a repository if:

    • GitHub Actions is initially enabled on the repository, but is then disabled in the repository.
    • GitHub Actions required by code scanning configurations are not available in the repository.
    • The definition for which languages should not be analyzed using code scanning default setup is changed.

14. To finish creating your custom security configuration, click Save configuration.

Next steps

To optionally configure additional secret scanning settings for the enterprise, see Configuring additional secret scanning settings for your enterprise.

To apply your custom security configuration to repositories in your organization, see Aplicación de una configuración de seguridad personalizada.

Para obtener información sobre cómo editar custom security configuration, consulte "Edición de una configuración de seguridad personalizada".