As DevOps environments become primary attack surfaces, protecting your intellectual property (IP) requires a data-driven understanding of the modern threat landscape.

The 2026 “DevOps Threats Unwrapped Report” by GitProtect accelerates building your cyber awareness. It brings you the latest statistics, highlighting contemporary trends in DevSecOps. It also dives into dozens of real attacks and breaches affecting SaaS platforms in 2025 in 10 different areas.

Among these, AI and compliance are often misunderstood and unclear—and therefore potentially heavily exploited—facets of the modern DevOps stack.

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AI: Widespread Adoption and Greater Attack Surface
Compliance: More Regulations, More Risks
The Complete Picture of 2025 DevOps Threats
Gain Expertise and Protect Your Organization

AI: Widespread Adoption and Greater Attack Surface

Major DevOps platforms—like GitHub, Atlassian, and GitLab—have already integrated AI tools to assist professionals. While these accelerate development, they simultaneously expand the attack surface. AI integration facilitates supply-chain attacks and code abuse. It also creates security gaps, enabling prompt injection, remote code execution, and credential exfiltration.

Analyzing status pages and industry portals, we identified a total of 68 AI-related issues of different impact in 2025. The trend is rising, with 16% more incidents occurring in H2 than in H1.

Conclusion? You need to treat AI tools as untrusted actors by default. In software development, it should involve strict input control, human-in-the-loop reviews, and least-privilege access for AI agents, to name a few.

Compliance: More Regulations, More Risks

Poor governance, data practices, and compliance are likely to cause you legal trouble and hefty fines nowadays. What’s important, using a third-party code-hosting cloud doesn’t void your liability for data you store there.

According to the Enforcement Tracker, the number of recorded GDPR violations increased from 297 in 2024 to 335 in 2025. This suggests that companies still struggle to remain compliant. Why? There are more legal requirements, more data to handle, and greater infrastructure complexity.

What’s more, enforcing strict compliance requirements, vulnerability management, rapid response, and reliable monitoring are essential to maintain customer trust and your service continuity. That’s because we live in a world where even unconfirmed breaches may severely impact your business.

The Complete Picture of 2025 DevOps Threats

Synthesized from a year of status page data and industry telemetry, the report covers 10 critical areas, including supply chain, identity, and outages.

We recorded a total of 607 incidents across GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Atlassian’s Jira and Bitbucket. It translated into over 9,000 hours of impact. On top of that, you’ll find interesting insights about, for example, the most affected industries.

The great value of the report lies in the detailed analyses of dozens of real-life attacks and breaches. You can use each of them as a valuable and practical lesson to learn about the causes of an incident, as well as its progression and aftermath.

Gain Expertise and Protect Your Organization

Download the report to:

  • get a unique-on-the-market perspective and learn about the latest stats, trends, risks, and more;
  • analyze real-life cases to build experience, learn to identify the first symptoms of a breach, and fight off any risk.

Become a DevOps threat expert to protect what’s critical to your organization—proprietary code, intellectual property, users’ personal information, and more. Get the report for free to build a whole new level of expertise and security at your organization.

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