Question

Your organization wants to route Dependabot alerts to a dedicated security team using a shared inbox, while ensuring that the platform engineering team (who own the repositories) can still triage and dismiss alerts. A security analyst who is NOT a repository collaborator needs to receive email notifications for new Dependabot alerts on several repositories. What must be true for this analyst to receive those alert notifications?

Accepted Answer

The analyst must be granted at least write access to the repositories (or be assigned the security manager role at the org level), since Dependabot alert visibility requires appropriate repository permissions.

Answer

The analyst only needs to subscribe to the repository's release notifications; Dependabot alerts are delivered through the same channel.

Answer

The analyst can be added as an alert recipient by email address directly in the Dependabot settings, without any repository or organization role.

Answer

The analyst must be made an outside collaborator with read access, which automatically enables Dependabot alert notifications.