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About GitHub Advanced Security

GitHub makes extra security features available to customers under an Advanced Security license.

O GitHub Advanced Security está disponível para contas corporativas no GitHub Enterprise Cloud e no GitHub Enterprise Server. Para obter mais informações sobre como atualizar sua instância do GitHub Enterprise Server, confira "Sobre os upgrades para novas versões" e veja o Assistente de atualização para encontrar o caminho de upgrade da sua versão atual.

About GitHub Advanced Security

GitHub has many features that help you improve and maintain the quality of your code. Some of these are included in all plans, such as dependency graph and Dependabot alerts. Other security features require a GitHub Advanced Security.

For information about buying a license for GitHub Advanced Security, see "About billing for GitHub Advanced Security."

About Advanced Security features

A GitHub Advanced Security license provides the following additional features:

  • Code scanning - Search for potential security vulnerabilities and coding errors in your code. For more information, see "About code scanning."

  • Secret scanning - Detect secrets, for example keys and tokens, that have been checked into the repository. If push protection is enabled, also detects secrets when they are pushed to your repository. For more information, see "About secret scanning" and "Protecting pushes with secret scanning."

  • Dependency review - Show the full impact of changes to dependencies and see details of any vulnerable versions before you merge a pull request. For more information, see "About dependency review."

For information about Advanced Security features that are in development, see "GitHub public roadmap." For an overview of all security features, see "GitHub security features."