GitHub Advanced Security is built to optimize the developer experience through automation. It helps your teams identify and fix reported security issues quickly and efficiently by integrating security into every step of the developer workflow.
Security issues happen, but leaving them unfixed can put a strain on your team and business. The best thing you can do is identify the issues early and fix them quickly.
GitHub Advanced Security provides industry-leading capabilities natively in the developer environment. These capabilities include:
Find and fix security issues in your code before they reach production with static application security testing (SAST).
Prevent unauthorized access and breaches by watching your repositories for known secret formats, and get notified as soon as secrets are found.
Catch vulnerable dependencies before you introduce them to your code base with software composition analysis (SCA).
Code scanning examines your code for security issues as it’s being written, and integrates fixes natively into the developer workflow. Learn More
Secret scanning watches your repositories for known and custom secret formats, then notifies you as soon as secrets are found. See how it works
Dependency review helps your reviewers and contributors understand dependency changes and their security impact?including which dependencies were added, removed, or updated. Learn how this works
Security overview provides visibility into your security posture across your codebase? helping you prioritize issues and repositories that require your attention. Learn more
Third-party integrations and SARIF support provide the flexibility and freedom for your teams to use any mix of open source or commercial application security solutions?without context switching. Check out the full overview here
GitHub’s security features help your team build and ship more efficiently. See how code scanning, secret scanning, supply chain security, and more fit into your developer workflow.
View, fix, dismiss, or delete alerts for potential vulnerabilities or errors in your project's code.
Define the severities causing pull request check failure and specify scanning for specific branches.
Get an easily understandable visualization of dependency changes with a rich diff on the Files Changed tab of a pull request.
We prefer to have security that leverages what developers are already using rather than trying to force them to use some other tool... it always causes friction.
