What is the GitHub Enterprise 'Security Overview' and what does it aggregate?
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Short Explanation and Infographic
Security Overview is your GHAS command center. Instead of checking each repo's security tab individually, you see the consolidated picture of every code scanning finding, exposed secret, and vulnerable dependency across all repos in your org — all in one place.
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Full Explanation
The GitHub Security Overview (available with GitHub Advanced Security) provides a centralized dashboard aggregating security information across multiple repositories in an organization or enterprise. It consolidates: (1) Code Scanning alerts — sorted by severity, filterable by rule, repository, or language. (2) Secret Scanning alerts — detected credentials across repositories with push protection metrics. (3) Dependabot alerts — vulnerable dependencies across all repositories with severity breakdowns. The Security Overview helps security teams prioritize remediation at scale, identify trends (which repos have the most issues), enforce policies, and report on security posture. It does NOT aggregate authentication events (that's the audit log), branch protection violations, or GitHub's own platform status.