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Viewing the security overview

Navigate to the different views available in the security overview

Who can use this feature

Organization owners and security managers can access the organization-level security overview. 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."

Note: The security overview is currently in beta and subject to change.

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

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