Running the secret risk assessment for your organization

Determine your organization's exposure to leaked secrets by generating a secret risk assessment report.

Who can use this feature?

Organization owners and security managers

Free for organizations on GitHub Team and GitHub Enterprise
Get started with security risk assessments

In this article

Generating an initial secret risk assessment

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the organization.

  2. Under your organization name, click the Security tab.

  3. In the sidebar, under "Security", click Assessments.

  4. To generate the secret risk assessment, click Scan your organization.

    Note

    If you haven't previously run a security risk assessment, this will also initiate a code security risk assessment.

    If you're an organization owner and you've opted in for email notifications, GitHub will send you an email to let you know when the report is ready to view.

Rerunning the secret risk assessment

Note

You can only generate a secret risk assessment report once every 90 days.

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the organization.
  2. Under your organization name, click the Security tab.
  3. In the sidebar, under "Security", click Assessments.
  4. Towards the top right side of the existing report, click Rerun scan.

If you're an organization owner and you've opted in for email notifications, GitHub will send you an email to let you know when the report is ready to view.

Next steps

Now that you've generated a secret risk assessment report for your organization, learn how to interpret the results. See Interpreting secret risk assessment results.