The correct option is GitHub Advanced Security. It provides the stronger security features, compliance tooling, and controls that help teams govern what gets merged and released.

This capability delivers code scanning with CodeQL and other analyzers, secret scanning with push protection, dependency review, and an organization wide security overview. These features enable policy enforcement that can block pull requests when issues are found and provide reporting that supports compliance needs, which together give teams more control over their release process.

GitHub Connect links GitHub Enterprise Server with GitHub Enterprise Cloud to share features and data, yet it is not a suite of security and compliance controls and it does not add release gating.

GitHub Packages is a package registry for publishing and consuming packages and it does not provide code or secret scanning, compliance reporting, or controls over releases.

GitHub Actions is workflow automation for CI and CD and while checks can be orchestrated with it, it is not the purchased security capability that offers the comprehensive scanning, compliance tooling, and governance the scenario requires.

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