The evolution of artificial intelligence has been rapid thus far. By 2030 the AI market is projected to reach $1.81 trillion. Technology supported by AI has been useful in many areas of life such as education, healthcare, or finance. That is reflected by the rate of AI adoption by organizations being 72% (2024). Even if you just look around you – many people use tools like ChatGPT for daily life or work, AI helps with email management or studying. What do these advancements in AI bring to DevOps?

We got it! We are proud to announce that GitProtect 1.9.5 now supports fast and reliable Jira Assets backup and recovery – with both Granular Restore and Disaster Recovery! As a result, our portfolio of protected DevOps data has expanded to include another important resource for our customers – and we continue to maintain our mission to protect the largest scope of DevOps platforms in the world.

Immutable backups (IB) are a robust defense mechanism against the consequences of cyberattacks. The latter can be considered an “evolving constant,” while DevOps environments closely link development and operations. IT teams adopt CI/CD pipelines and centralized applications utilizing multi-cloud deployment. And that usually translates into a growing attack surface (check 2024 DevOps Threats Unwrapped).

In most cases, migration from Bitbucket to Azure DevOps is driven by the need for better integration within the Microsoft ecosystem. This is especially true when scalability for larger projects and a unified development environment support modern software development practices. Companies undergo such a migration for strategic reasons.

The current DevOps market is rapidly expanding and it is important for organizations to keep a competitive edge. Today we will look at Agile methodologies and how they can be applied to and utilized in Jira. As you may know, Jira is a popular and comprehensive project management service from Atlassian that offers many tools that actually support Agile practices and development.

Given the reality of today’s cybersecurity, it is of utmost importance to have frameworks and regulations. These help both the customers and the organizations to stay protected against the cyber threats that are around us. On 17th January 2025, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), formally known as Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, came into full effect.

More and more organizations opt for Azure DevOps to store their source code and project data. Azure DevOps has many benefits – from rapid application deployment and problem-solving capabilities to improved collaboration and communication at the workplace. Yet, they sometimes overlook one important issue – the Shared Responsibility Model. This is a framework which outlines the responsibilities of the user and the provider in regards to security.

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 Atlassian ecosystem? Outages? Security flaws? We’ve decided to analyze it. In comparison to the previous year, the number of incidents in Jira grew by 44%, and when we compare it to 2022 the percentage is even higher – 63% – in 2022 there were reported 59 incidents, in 2023 – 75, and in 2024 their number grew to 132 incidents.

In 2024 threat actors were trying to abuse GitHub even more severely than before. There were detected thousands of “ghost accounts” spreading malware. Hackers were also trying to succeed in their malware campaigns using not only repositories but also comments. Moreover, multiple organizations that store their source code on GitHub have experienced data leakage and data breaches. Among those companies are The New York Times, Mercedes Benz, Ultralitics, etc.

In 2024 threat actors were trying to abuse GitHub even more severely than before. There were detected thousands of “ghost accounts” spreading malware. Hackers were also trying to succeed in their malware campaigns using not only repositories but also comments. Moreover, multiple organizations that store their source code on GitHub have experienced data leakage and data breaches. Among those companies are The New York Times, Mercedes Benz, Ultralitics, etc.