Configuring SAML single sign-on for your enterprise

You can control and secure access to resources like repositories, issues, and pull requests within your enterprise's organizations by enforcing SAML single sign-on (SSO) through your identity provider (IdP).

• Accounts
• Authentication
• Enterprise
• Identity
• SSO

About SAML for enterprise IAM

You can use SAML single sign-on (SSO) to centrally manage access to organizations owned by your enterprise on GitHub.com.

• Accounts
• Access management
• Authentication
• Enterprise
• Identity

Configuring SAML single sign-on for your enterprise using Okta

You can use Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) single sign-on (SSO) with Okta to automatically manage access to your enterprise account on GitHub Enterprise Cloud.

• Authentication
• Enterprise

Managing team synchronization for organizations in your enterprise

You can enable team synchronization between Microsoft Entra ID (previously known as Azure AD) and GitHub Enterprise Cloud to allow organizations owned by your enterprise account to manage team membership through IdP groups.

• Accounts
• Enterprise
• SSO
• Teams

Switching your SAML configuration from an organization to an enterprise account

Learn special considerations and best practices for replacing an organization-level SAML configuration with an enterprise-level SAML configuration.

• Authentication
• Enterprise
• Organizations

About Enterprise Managed Users

Learn how your enterprise can manage the lifecycle and authentication of users on GitHub from your identity provider (IdP).

• Accounts
• Authentication
• Enterprise
• SSO

Configuring SAML single sign-on for Enterprise Managed Users

You can automatically manage access to your enterprise account on GitHub by configuring Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) single sign-on (SSO).

• Authentication
• Enterprise
• SSO

Configuring SCIM provisioning for Enterprise Managed Users

You can manage the lifecycle of your enterprise's user accounts from your identity provider (IdP) using System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM).

• Accounts
• Enterprise

Managing team memberships with identity provider groups

Connect IdP groups with teams on GitHub to manage team and organization membership through your identity provider.

• Accounts
• Enterprise
• SSO
• Teams

Using SAML for enterprise IAM

You can centrally manage access to your enterprise's resources with SAML single sign-on (SSO) and System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM).

Configuring self-hosted runners for code scanning in your enterprise

You can enable, configure, and disable code scanning for GitHub Enterprise Cloud without GitHub-hosted runners. Code scanning allows users to scan code for vulnerabilities and errors.

• Advanced Security
• Code scanning
• Enterprise
• Security

Verifying or approving a domain for your enterprise

You can verify your ownership of domains with GitHub to confirm the identity of organizations owned by your enterprise account. You can also approve domains where organization members can receive email notifications.

• Enterprise
• Notifications
• Organizations
• Policy

About GitHub Support

You can contact GitHub Support for help troubleshooting issues you encounter while using GitHub.

• Support

Enforcing policies for GitHub Actions in your enterprise

You can enforce policies to manage how GitHub Actions can be used within your enterprise.

• Actions
• Enterprise
• Policies

About enterprise accounts

Learn how enterprise accounts enable scalability by simplifying administration and billing across multiple organizations.

• Accounts
• Enterprise
• Fundamentals

Enforcing policies for code security and analysis for your enterprise

You can enforce policies to manage the use of code security and analysis features within your enterprise's organizations.

• Advanced Security
• Code scanning
• Enterprise
• Policies
• Secret scanning
• Security

Enforcing policies for security settings in your enterprise

You can enforce policies to manage security settings in your enterprise's organizations, or allow policies to be set in each organization.

• Enterprise
• Policies
• Security

Enforcing policies for projects in your enterprise

You can enforce policies for projects within your enterprise's organizations, or allow policies to be set in each organization.

• Enterprise
• Policies
• Projects

Enforcing repository management policies in your enterprise

You can enforce policies for repository management within your enterprise's organizations, or allow policies to be set in each organization.

• Enterprise
• Policies
• Repositories
• Security

Restricting email notifications for your enterprise

You can prevent your enterprise's information from leaking into personal email accounts by restricting the domains where members can receive email notifications about activity in organizations owned by your enterprise.

• Enterprise
• Notifications
• Organizations
• Policies

Managing dormant users

A user account is considered to be dormant if it has not been active for 90 days.

• Accounts
• Enterprise
• Licensing

About the audit log for your enterprise

To support debugging and internal and external compliance, GitHub Enterprise Cloud provides logs of audited user, organization, and repository events.

• Auditing
• Enterprise
• Logging
• Security

Accessing the audit log for your enterprise

You can view aggregated actions from all of the organizations owned by an enterprise account in the enterprise's audit log.

• Auditing
• Enterprise
• Logging

Searching the audit log for your enterprise

You can search an extensive list of audited actions in your enterprise.

• Auditing
• Enterprise
• Logging

Exporting audit log activity for your enterprise

You can export audit and Git events data to a file for offline analysis.

• Auditing
• Enterprise
• Logging

Streaming the audit log for your enterprise

Learn how to stream audit and Git events data from GitHub to an external data management system.

• Auditing
• Enterprise
• Logging
• Organizations

Using the audit log API for your enterprise

Learn how to programmatically retrieve enterprise events with the REST API.

• Auditing
• Enterprise
• Logging
• API

Audit log events for your enterprise

Review the events recorded in an enterprise's audit log.

• Auditing
• Enterprise
• Logging
• Security

Managing global webhooks

You can configure global webhooks to notify external web servers when events occur within your enterprise.

• Enterprise
• Webhooks

Adding organizations to your enterprise

Learn how to add organizations to your enterprise using three different methods.

• Administrator
• Enterprise
• Organizations

Inviting people to manage your enterprise

You can invite and remove enterprise owners and billing managers for your enterprise account.

• Administrator
• Enterprise
• User account

Managing support entitlements for your enterprise

You can grant enterprise members the ability to manage support tickets for your enterprise account.

• Enterprise
• Support

Roles in an enterprise

Learn which roles you can assign to control access to your enterprise's settings and data.

• Enterprise

Viewing and managing a user's SAML access to your enterprise

You can view and revoke an enterprise member's linked identity, active sessions, and authorized credentials.

• Enterprise

Viewing people in your enterprise

To audit access to enterprise-owned resources or user license usage, enterprise owners can view every administrator and member of the enterprise.

• Enterprise

Creating an enterprise account

Learn the steps and effects of creating an enterprise account.

• Accounts
• Enterprise
• Fundamentals