Security overview provides insights into the security of code stored in repositories in your organization.

• All organizations on GitHub Team can use the freesecret risk assessment to evaluate the exposure of their organization to leaked secrets, seeViewing the secret risk assessment report for your organization.
• GitHub Team accounts that purchaseGitHub Secret Protection or GitHub Code Security have access to views with additional insights.

The information below describes the views available to organizations with GitHub Secret Protection or GitHub Code Security that you can use to identify trends in detection, remediation, and prevention of security alerts and dig deep into the current state of your repositories.

About the views

The views are interactive with filters that allow you to look at the aggregated data in detail and identify sources of high risk, see security trends, and see the impact of pull request analysis on blocking security vulnerabilities entering your code. As you apply multiple filters to focus on narrower areas of interest, all data and metrics across the view change to reflect your current selection. For more information, seeFiltering alerts in security overview.

From security overview, you can download comma-separated values (CSV) files containing data from several pages of your organization or enterprise's security overview. These files can be used for efforts like security research and in-depth data analysis, and can integrate easily with external datasets. For more information, seeExporting data from security overview.

There are dedicated views for each type of security alert. You can limit your analysis to a specific type of alert, and then narrow the results further with a range of filters specific to each view. For example, in the secret scanning alert view, you can use the "Secret type" filter to view only secret scanning alerts for a specific secret, like a GitHub personal access token.

About security overview for organizations

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, the team can use the "Overview" dashboard view to track your organization's security landscape and progression.

You can find security overview on theSecurity tab for any organization. Each view shows a summary of the data that you have access to. As you add filters, all data and metrics across the view change to reflect the repositories or alerts that you've selected. For information about permissions, seePermission to view data in security overview.

Security overview has multiple views that provide different ways to explore enablement and alert data.

• Overview: visualize trends inDetection,Remediation, andPrevention of security alerts, seeViewing security insights.
• Risk and Alert views: explore the risk from security alerts of all types or focus on a single alert type and identify your risk from specific vulnerable dependencies, code weaknesses, or leaked secrets, seeAssessing the security risk of your code.
• Coverage: assess the adoption of security features across repositories in the organization, seeAssessing adoption of security features.
• Assessments: regardless of the enablement status of Advanced Security features, organizations on GitHub Team and GitHub Enterprise can run a free report to scan the code in the organization for leaked secrets, seeAbout the secret risk assessment.
• Enablement trends: see how quickly different teams are adopting security features.
• CodeQL pull request alerts: assess the impact of running CodeQL on pull requests and how development teams are resolving code scanning alerts, seeViewing metrics for pull request alerts.
• Secret scanning: find out which types of secret are blocked by push protection and which teams are bypassing push protection, seeViewing metrics for secret scanning push protection andReviewing requests to bypass push protection.

You also create and manage security campaigns to remediate alerts from security overview, seeCreating and managing security campaigns andBest practices for fixing security alerts at scale.

About security overview for enterprises

You can find security overview on theSecurity tab for your enterprise. Each page displays aggregated and repository-specific security information for your enterprise.

As with security overview for organizations, security overview for enterprises has multiple views that provide different ways to explore data.

For information about permissions, seePermission to view data in security overview.

Permission to view data in security overview

Organization-level overview

If you are anowner or security manager for an organization, you can see data for all the repositories in the organization in all views.

If you are anorganization or team member, you can view security overview for the organization and see data for repositories where you have an appropriate level of access.

For more information about access to security alerts and related views, seeManaging security and analysis settings for your repository andAbout custom repository roles.

Enterprise-level overview

In the enterprise-level security overview, you can see data for all organizations where you are anorganization owner or security manager.

Further reading

• Quickstart for securing your repository
• Securing your organization
• Introduction to adopting GitHub Advanced Security at scale