Security, governance, and network settings for GitHub Copilot

You can prevent Copilot from accessing certain files.

Understand what session data is, where it is stored, who can access it, and how it is managed.

Cloud and local sandboxes provide isolated execution environments that let Copilot safely interact with code, tools, filesystem, and network resources securely on your local machine or in fully isolated cloud environments.

How do Copilot cloud agent's built-in security protections mitigate known risks?

You can connect to GitHub Copilot through an HTTP proxy and use custom certificates.