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Code security guides
Learn about the different ways that GitHub Enterprise Cloud can help you improve your code's security.
Code security learning paths
Fix and disclose a security vulnerability
Using security advisories to privately fix a reported vulnerability and get a CVE.
Get notifications for vulnerable dependencies
Set up Dependabot to alert you to new vulnerabilities in your dependencies.
Get pull requests to update your vulnerable dependencies
Set up Dependabot to create pull requests when new vulnerabilities are reported.
Keep your dependencies up-to-date
Use Dependabot to check for new releases and create pull requests to update your dependencies.
Explore and manage security alerts
Learn where to find and resolve security alerts.
Scan for secrets
Set up secret scanning to guard against accidental check-ins of tokens, passwords, and other secrets to your repository.
Run code scanning with GitHub Actions
Check your default branch and every pull request to keep vulnerabilities and errors out of your repository.
Run CodeQL code scanning in your CI
Set up CodeQL within your existing CI and upload results to GitHub code scanning.
Integrate with code scanning
Upload code analysis results from third-party systems to GitHub using SARIF.
All Code security guides
Adding a security policy to your repository
How-to guideYou can give instructions for how to report a security vulnerability in your project by adding a security policy to your repository.
- Security policies
- Vulnerabilities
- Repositories
- Health
GitHub security features
OverviewAn overview of GitHub security features.
- Repositories
- Dependencies
- Vulnerabilities
- Advanced Security
Securing your organization
How-to guideYou can use a number of GitHub features to help keep your organization secure.
- Organizations
- Dependencies
- Vulnerabilities
- Advanced Security
Securing your repository
How-to guideYou can use a number of GitHub features to help keep your repository secure.
- Repositories
- Dependencies
- Vulnerabilities
- Advanced Security
About secret scanning
OverviewGitHub Enterprise Cloud scans repositories for known types of secrets, to prevent fraudulent use of secrets that were committed accidentally.
- Secret scanning
- Advanced Security
Configuring secret scanning for your repositories
How-to guideYou can configure how GitHub scans your repositories for secrets.
- Secret scanning
- Advanced Security
- Repositories
Managing alerts from secret scanning
How-to guideYou can view and close alerts for secrets checked in to your repository.
- Secret scanning
- Advanced Security
- Alerts
- Repositories
About code scanning
OverviewYou can use code scanning to find security vulnerabilities and errors in the code for your project on GitHub.
- Advanced Security
- Code scanning
Configuring code scanning
How-to guideYou can configure how GitHub scans the code in your project for vulnerabilities and errors.
- Advanced Security
- Code scanning
- Actions
- Repositories
- Pull requests
- JavaScript
- Python
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