44%
YoY growth in major/critical DevOps incidents for H1 in the last 12 months
GitProtect Lab
We don't guess about DevOps risk. We measure it.
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01 The numbers
The scale of the problem
Threats evolve every day. So does our GitProtect Lab’s research. We continuously track the DevOps security landscape to uncover emerging risks and the trends behind them.
1 in 3
surveyed experienced a security incidents due to AI
3x
growth in AI-related security incidents year-over-year for H1
02 Lab Initiatives
From the Lab bench
No guesswork. Just verified data and expert analysis that empowers CISOs and technology leaders to accurately predict DevOps incidents and harden their infrastructure against evolving threats.
Flagship report · 2026
DevOps Threats Unwrapped
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03 Specialized articles
Specialized articles
Explore GitProtect Lab expert articles and find out the latest trends shaping DevSecOps.
Research 
The Most Targeted Industries: What DevOps Teams Can Learn from Recent Incidents
Which industries are attracting the most attention from cybercriminals today?
Research 
DevOps Threats 2026: GitProtect Reveals AI and Compliance Danger Zones
As DevOps environments become primary attack surfaces, protecting your intellectual property (IP) requires a data-driven understanding of the modern threat landscape.
Research 
12 Cloud Outages With Catastrophic Effects
There’s no infrastructure that’s always on and immune to all kinds of threats. Even the top providers leave a tiny margin in their Service Level Agreements (SLA), stating 99.999% uptime at most.
04 Publication library
Leader perspective
Stay ahead of the latest DevSecOps threats and equip your organization to defend against the most advanced cyber attacks.
Why backup and recovery must be part of your AI agent security strategy The terminal output was still scrolling when Jer Crane, the founder of PocketOS, realized what had happened. Nine seconds. That is how long… 
How leadership should assess DevOps backup solutions before purchase Managing a growing list of vendors can add complexity across an organization. Adding a new partner may require navigating additional… 
How We Prevented a Critical Jira Data Loss Incident (and So Can You) As daily Jira users, the GitProtect Team experiences the platform’s pros and cons firsthand. A recent notification from Atlassian about… 
Data Protection for Law Firms: Why Legal Companies Need DevOps Backup Software supports business operations in healthcare, finance, e-commerce, and legal tech as well. Many organizations build legal tech… 
30 Cybersecurity Statistics You Must Know in 2026 A set of fresh cybersecurity numbers from recent reports, organized around the attack lifecycle, so you can use them as a quick checklist… 
Why Healthcare Needs DevOps Backup And DR Strategy There is a critical speed-control paradox in the healthcare DevOps landscape: while DevOps best practices dramatically cut software… 
DevOps Threats Unwrapped: Mid-Year Report 2025 From minor hiccups to full-blown blackouts, the first half of 2025 made it clear that even the most trusted DevOps platforms are not immune… 
How to protect your Finance and Banking DevOps data Fintech and banking ranked among the top three most targeted industries in 2024, according to the CISO’s guide to DevOps threats. 
The State of Atlassian Threat Landscape – 2024 In Review The year 2024 was full of incidents, hacker attacks, and security flaws that were used in the wild. Were there any incidents related to the… 
The State of GitHub Threat Landscape for GitHub Admins – 2024 In Review In 2024 threat actors were trying to abuse GitHub even more severely than before. There were detected thousands of “ghost accounts”… 
The State of GitLab Threat Landscape – 2024 In Review Let’s move on with our research on the DevOps threat landscape in 2024. Let’s see which security incidents and vulnerabilities GiLab users… 
The State of Azure DevOps Threat Landscape – 2024 In Review The year 2024 is over, so it’s time to sum up what threats were the most dangerous for DevOps and PMs. Outages, degraded service… 
The State of DevOps Threats Report – GitProtect.io’s Study Highlights The Major Cyber Risks and Security Best Practices Key findings to withstand the DevOps threats 
Cyber Resilience Act: What Does It Mean For Your Digital Business? Software developers push thousands of lines of code every day, helping enterprises shape the tools and applications we all rely on,… 
Human Error – The Most Common Cybersecurity Mistakes for DevOps Even though security tooling and automation in DevOps have advanced, human error remains the primary cause of cybersecurity breaches. It’s… 
NIS2 explained: Security Compliance Path The ever-evolving cybersecurity threat landscape make the competent authorities adapt to reality by establishing new security regulations… 
GitLab Vulnerabilities And Security Incidents: 2023 In Review We continue our series of DevOps incidents and failures. This time, we stopped our view on GitLab. What incidents made this secure service… 
Atlassian security incidents: 2023 in Review Welcome back to our second article in the series of DevOps-related incidents and failures. If you missed our previous review, don’t… 
Infamous GitHub-related Incidents And Threats: 2023 in Review How will the cybersecurity landscape change in 2024? Will it become safer or more dangerous? We can guess, make predictions… or just wait a… 
Ultimate Review of The Most Infamous GitHub-related Security Incidents in 2022 We can definitely say 2022 is in the books but we picked out the most interesting and worthwhile bits of news about GitHub-related… 
2022 In A Nutshell: Atlassian Outages And Vulnerabilities The Year 2022 definitely wasn’t the best year for Jira and Bitbucket users in history. Atlassian outages, warnings about data breaches,… 
Okta Suffers a hacker attack on GitHub repositories. Was it predictable? In December a leading provider of authentication services and Identity and Access Management (IAM) tools, Okta, reported a hacker attack on… 
Was The Jira Outage The Last Atlassian Problem? A month ago it was impossible to imagine that hundreds of customers could lose access to such apps as Jira. What is more, it was absolutely… 05 In the press
GitProtect in the media
How DevOps tools are opening the gates for high-profile cyberattacks
According to The CISO’s Guide to DevOps Threats, the most targeted industries in 2024 are Technology & Software, Fintech & Banking, and Media & Entertainment.
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GitOps Under Fire: Resilience Lessons from GitProtect’s Mid-Year 2025 Incident Report
GitOps is at the heart of today’s cloud-native delivery pipelines — but what happens when the very platforms it relies on begin to falter?
Read article 330 DevOps Platform Incidents in H1 2025, GitProtect Report Finds
Top DevOps platforms faced significant reliability woes in the first half of 2025, with a total of 330 incidents recorded from January through June, according to GitProtect.io’s DevOps Threats Unwrapped Mid-Year Report.
Read article How Cloud Service Disruptions Make Resilience Critical
With application teams increasingly dependent on common infrastructure, the outages and incidents underscore that any problem with a critical cloud service could have a ripple effect, says Daria Kulikova, a cybersecurity strategist for GitProtect.io.
Read article 7 hard truths security pros should know: 2026 DevOps Threats Report
In 2025, trusted Git hosting platforms became a playground for cyber criminals. This is the main conclusion from the latest “DevOps Threats Unwrapped Report 2026” by GitProtect.
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