{"meta":{"title":"About enabling security features at scale","intro":"You can quickly secure your organization at scale with security configurations and global settings.","product":"Security and code quality","breadcrumbs":[{"href":"/en/enterprise-server@3.15/code-security","title":"Security and code quality"},{"href":"/en/enterprise-server@3.15/code-security/concepts","title":"Concepts"},{"href":"/en/enterprise-server@3.15/code-security/concepts/security-at-scale","title":"Security at scale"},{"href":"/en/enterprise-server@3.15/code-security/concepts/security-at-scale/about-enabling-security-features-at-scale","title":"Organization security"}],"documentType":"article"},"body":"# About enabling security features at scale\n\nYou can quickly secure your organization at scale with security configurations and global settings.\n\n## About securing your organization\n\nGitHub offers many security features including GitHub Advanced Security, a suite of features designed to protect your organization from vulnerabilities in your code, insecure dependencies, leaked secrets, and more.\n\nYou can easily enable and manage GitHub's security features throughout your organization with security configurations, which control repository-level security features, and global settings, which control security features at the organization level. We recommend applying security configurations *and* customizing your global settings to create a system that best meets the security needs of your organization.\n\nFor more information on purchasing GitHub Advanced Security, see [About GitHub Advanced Security](/en/enterprise-server@3.15/get-started/learning-about-github/about-github-advanced-security) and [Buying Advanced Security for your organization or enterprise](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/billing/how-tos/products/add-advanced-security) in the GitHub Enterprise Cloud documentation.\n\n## About security configurations\n\nSecurity configurations are collections of enablement settings for GitHub's security features that you can apply to any repository within an organization.\n\nWhen you create a security configuration, you can choose different enablement settings to meet the specific security needs of a group of repositories.\n\nTo learn how to create custom security configurations, see [Creating a custom security configuration](/en/enterprise-server@3.15/code-security/securing-your-organization/enabling-security-features-in-your-organization/creating-a-custom-security-configuration).\n\n## About global settings\n\nWhile security configurations determine repository-level security settings, global settings determine your organization-level security settings, which are then inherited by all repositories. With global settings, you can customize how security features analyze your organization, as well as grant a team permission to manage security alerts and settings across your organization.\n\n## Next steps\n\nTo get started with creating a security configuration for your organization, see [Creating a custom security configuration](/en/enterprise-server@3.15/code-security/securing-your-organization/enabling-security-features-in-your-organization/creating-a-custom-security-configuration)."}