We are streamlining the deployment of GitHub’s security products at scale with code security configurations. This functionality simplifies the rollout of GitHub security products by defining collections of security settings and enabling you to apply those settings to groups of repositories. Configurations help you maintain security settings for important features like code scanning, secret scanning, and Dependabot.
As of October 15th, 2024, you will no longer be able to enable or disable GitHub security features for repositories from the organization-level security coverage view.
Learn more about code security configurations and send us your feedback.
Starting in April 2024, GitHub Advanced Security customers using secret scanning have been able to specify which teams or roles have the ability to bypass push protection using a delegated bypass list.
Administrators can now add the maintainer role to this list.
Today, we’ve announced the general availability of Copilot Autofix for CodeQL alerts in GitHub code scanning! Powered by GitHub Copilot, this feature brings automatic fixes for vulnerabilities found by CodeQL into the developer workflow.
Through a deep integration in GitHub pull requests, autofixes help developers to fix vulnerabilities quickly and early in the development process, thereby preventing new vulnerabilities from entering your codebase. Data from our beta programme shows that vulnerabilities with a fix suggestion are fixed 3x faster across all vulnerability types, and even faster for complicated vulnerability types like cross-site scripting (7x faster) and SQL injection (12x faster). For security debt that already exists in your codebases, Copilot Autofix can help you with on-demand autofixes for historical alerts. Copilot Autofix for CodeQL code scanning was previously called “code scanning autofix”, and is now generally available for all GitHub Advanced Security customers on GitHub.com.
As developers start using autofixes, security teams can see an overview of how their organisation adopts autofixes generated by Copilot on their security overview dashboard. This includes detailed information about remediation rates.
For more information, see: About Copilot Autofix for CodeQL code scanning. If you have feedback for Copilot Autofix for code scanning, please join the discussion here.
