How does the enterprise Security Overview support compliance and risk reporting for GitHub Advanced Security programs?
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Security Overview is the enterprise GHAS scoreboard for feature coverage, open alerts, and adoption across organizations. It does not auto-sign SOC 2 attestations or wipe findings on a daily storage schedule.
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Security Overview gives enterprise and organization administrators a consolidated view of Advanced Security enablement and alerts such as code scanning, secret scanning, and Dependabot findings across many repositories. That aggregation supports compliance conversations about control coverage (which repos have scanning on) and residual risk (open critical alerts). It does not auto-delete findings on a twenty-four-hour cycle as a storage feature, is not limited to Free personal accounts, and does not replace formal GRC platforms or auditor-signed attestations. Mature programs export or integrate overview metrics into risk registers, set remediation SLAs, and track enablement percentage as a control metric. Pair overview dashboards with audit logs that prove who changed security settings.