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Features and options in the security tab

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Features and options in the security tab

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Here we have security tab features as the next section here under security. Let's take a look at a repository that's in an organization and go to the settings. When we go to settings, on the lower left corner, there is a security tab. Let's first dive into this feature, which is code security and analysis, which is a critical feature for security. For example, you can have the dependency graph enabled so that you can make sure that your dependencies in your repo are secure and up-to-date. And this is something that can be done by enabling this dependency graph. You also can enable security updates and also version updates. So these are all configurable at the repository level. Now another thing to consider though is you can do this at the organizational level. So if we go to this tab, we can see that there's a coverage icon here which shows security coverage and we can see all of the settings for multiple repositories, including dependabot, code scanning, and even secret scanning. And…

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