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Security overview for enterprise in beta

GitHub Advanced Security customers can now view an overview of security alerts at the enterprise level. The new "Security" tab at the enterprise level provides a repo-centric view of application security risks, as well as an alert-centric view of all secret scanning alerts. Both views are in beta, and will be followed in the coming months by alert-centric views for code scanning and Dependabot alerts.

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All npm accounts that do not have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled will now receive an email with a one-time password (OTP) when authenticating through either the npmjs.com website or the npm CLI. The emailed OTP must be provided, in addition to a user’s password, before authenticating. This extra layer of authentication helps prevent common account takeover attacks, such as credential stuffing, which utilize a user’s compromised and reused password. It is worth noting that enhanced login verification is intended to be an additional baseline protection for all publishers. It is not a replacement for 2FA, such as time-based one-time passwords (TOTP), WebAuthn, or other methods described by NIST 800-63B. We encourage maintainers to opt-in to 2FA authentication. In doing so, you will not need to perform enhanced login verification.

You can read more about enhanced login verification in our documentation and blog.

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