How to govern Security in GitHub Copilot
A step-by-step guide to governing Security in GitHub Copilot with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Security in GitHub Copilot means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for GitHub Copilot with the pre-built controls below, so it becomes a repeatable check rather than a one-off cleanup. The steps that follow apply the same detect, review, remediate loop to Security.
Steps
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Inventory GitHub Copilot
Connect GitHub Copilot and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.
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Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Security in GitHub Copilot to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
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Review by owner and severity
Use the GitHub Copilot reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.
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Remediate and automate
Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.
GitHub Copilot controls for Security
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full GitHub Copilot catalog on the GitHub Copilot connector page.
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Organization allows public code suggestions
Allowing public-code-matching suggestions is a reachable exposure, raising the likelihood of an IP or license incident.
Severity: High -
Organization auto-assigns Copilot to all members
Assigning Copilot to all members maximises the reachable surface, raising the likelihood that a weakness is exercised.
Severity: Medium -
Copilot seat assigned to deactivated Entra ID user
Detects Copilot seats whose underlying Entra ID account is disabled.
Severity: Medium -
Copilot seat held by external guest user
Detects Copilot seats assigned to guests in the Entra ID tenant.
Severity: Medium -
Public code suggestions are allowed
Detects Copilot organizations that permit suggestions matching public code.
Severity: High -
Copilot organization has no content exclusions
Detects organizations with no Copilot content exclusion rules configured.
Severity: Medium -
Remove Copilot Seat
Automatically removes a Copilot seat assignment from a GitHub organization after approval
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Block Copilot Public Code Suggestions
Automatically configures a GitHub organization to block Copilot suggestions that match public code after approval
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Block Copilot Public Code Suggestions
Configure the organization to block Copilot suggestions that match public code.
