Work item linking for Advanced Security alerts now available
Dec 19, 2025Laura Jiang

Summary
Introduces work item linking for GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps alerts, enabling users to link work items in Boards directly to security alerts. This improves context and visibility by allowing navigation between alerts and work items, and displaying linked work items in the repository's Advanced Security tab. The feature respects existing permissions.
More from the Azure DevOps Advanced Security API Access Control trail
- Copilot Code Reviews for Azure Repos (public preview)
- Copilot Autofix for GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
- Copilot Code Reviews for Azure Repos
- One-click security scanning and org-wide alert triage come to Advanced Security
- Temporary rollback: build identities can access Advanced Security: read alerts again