Note: The security overview is currently in beta and subject to change.
About the security overview
The security overview provides high-level summaries of the security status of an organization or enterprise and make it easy to identify problematic repositories that require intervention. You can also use the security overview to see which repositories have enabled specific security features and to configure any available security features that are not currently in use.
The security overview shows which security features are enabled for repositories and consolidate alerts for each feature.
- Risk and coverage information about Dependabot features and alerts is shown for all repositories.
- Risk and coverage information for GitHub Advanced Security features, such as code scanning and secret scanning, is shown for enterprises that use GitHub Advanced Security and for public repositories.
For more information, see "About Dependabot alerts" and "About GitHub Advanced Security."
About filtering and sorting alerts
The security overview provides a powerful way to understand the security of a group of repositories. The views are interactive with filters that allow you to drill into the aggregated data and identify sources of high risk or low feature coverage. As you apply multiple filters to focus on narrower areas of interest, the data across the view changes to reflect your selection. For more information, see "Filtering alerts in the security overview."
Note: The security overview displays active alerts raised by security features. If there are no alerts in the security overview for a repository, undetected security vulnerabilities or code errors may still exist.
About the organization-level security overview
You can find the security overview on the Security tab for any organization that's owned by an enterprise. Each view shows aggregated data that you can drill down into, as you add each filter, the data is updated to reflect the repositories or alerts that you've selected.
The application security team at your company can use the different views for both broad and specific analyses of your organization's security status. For example, they can use the overview page to monitor adoption of features by your organization or by a specific team as you rollout GitHub Advanced Security to your enterprise, or to review all alerts of a specific type and severity level across all repositories in your organization.
Organization owners and security managers for organizations have access to the security overview for their organizations.
Understanding the main security overview
For each repository in the security overview, you will see icons for each type of security feature and how many alerts there are of each type. If a security feature is not enabled for a repository, the icon for that feature will be grayed out. In addition, a risk score is calculated for each repository based on its code scanning, Dependabot and secret scanning alerts. This score is in beta and should be used with caution. Its algorithm and approach is subject to change.
| Icon | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Code scanning alerts. For more information, see "About code scanning." | |
| Secret scanning alerts. For more information, see "About secret scanning." | |
| Dependabot alerts. For more information, see "About Dependabot alerts." | |
| The security feature is enabled, but does not raise alerts in this repository. | |
| The security feature is not supported in this repository. |
About the team-level security overview
You can find the security overview on the Security tab for any team in an organization that's owned by an enterprise.
At the team-level, the security overview displays repository-specific security information for repositories that the team has admin privileges for. For more information, see "Managing team access to an organization repository."