Secret Scanning & Security Dashboard Updates 📢

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Some fresh updates for you:

• Enable secret scanning for non-provider patterns for enterprises with the REST API

GitHub Advanced Security customers using secret scanning can now use the REST API to enable or disable support for non-provider patterns at the enterprise level. This enables you to manage your enterprise settings programatically.

The following endpoints have been updated:
– Get code security and analysis features for an enterprise: check if non-provider patterns are enabled for the enterprise
– Update code security and analysis features for an enterprise: enable or disable non-provider patterns for all new repositories in an enterprise
– Enable or disable a security feature: enable or disable non-provider patterns for all existing repositories in an enterprise

Read more here.

• Enhanced security overview dashboard – detection, remediation, and prevention at the forefront

Now, you can view Prevention metrics alongside Detection and Remediation metrics and in an enhanced security overview dashboard. This update is available at both the organization and enterprise levels. New to the dashboard, the Prevention insights tab highlights CodeQL pull requests alerts and will soon include secret scanning push protection insights. It’s designed to help you shift from merely responding to vulnerabilities to actively preventing them, the ultimate goal in application security. With this dashboard, you and your team can proactively keep vulnerabilities at bay, successfully blocking threats before they ever reach production.

Read more here.