About the security overview

About the security overview

You can use the security overview for a high-level view of the security status of your organization or to identify problematic repositories that require intervention.

• At the organization-level, the security overview displays aggregate and repository-specific security information for repositories owned by your organization. You can also filter information per security feature.
• 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."
• At the repository-level, the security overview shows which security features are enabled for the repository, and offers the option to configure any available security features not currently in use.

The security overview indicates whether security features are enabled for repositories owned by your organization and consolidates alerts for each feature. Security features include GitHub Advanced Security features, such as code scanning and secret scanning, as well as Dependabot alerts. For more information about GitHub Advanced Security features, see "About GitHub Advanced Security." For more information about Dependabot alerts, see "About alerts for vulnerable dependencies."

For more information about securing your code at the repository and organization levels, see "Securing your repository" and "Securing your organization."

The application security team at your company can use the security overview 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.

About filtering and sorting alerts

In the security overview, you can view, sort, and filter alerts to understand the security risks in your organization and in specific repositories. The security summary is highly interactive, allowing you to investigate specific categories of information, based on qualifiers like alert risk level, alert type, and feature enablement. You can also apply multiple filters to focus on narrower areas of interest. For example, you can identify private repositories that have a high number of Dependabot alerts or repositories that have no code scanning alerts. For more information, see "Filtering alerts in the 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.

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 alerts for vulnerable dependencies."
	The security feature is enabled, but does not raise alerts in this repository.
	The security feature is not supported in this repository.

By default, archived repositories are excluded from the security overview for an organization. You can apply filters to view archived repositories in the security overview. For more information, see "Filtering alerts in the security overview."

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.