DevGuard

Mission

DevGuard is built by developers, for developers, aiming to integrate security seamlessly into the software development lifecycle, ensuring that security practices are accessible and efficient for everyone, regardless of their security expertise.

The problem we solve

Identifying and managing software vulnerabilities is an increasingly critical challenge. Developers often face security issues without the proper training or tools that fit into their everyday workflows. DevGuard is a developer-centered software designed to provide simple, modern solutions for vulnerability detection, management and technical compliance with common security frameworks.

In 2023 alone, cyberattacks caused approximately 206 billion euros in damage only in Germany. Many of these attacks exploited software vulnerabilities. With agile and DevOps methodologies becoming standard, the need for integrating security into the development process has never been greater. We aim to fill this gap with DevGuard, offering a seamless integration of vulnerability management into development workflows.

Key Features

1. Developer-Centric Integration: DevGuard fits naturally into your existing CI/CD workflows, reducing friction and enhancing productivity. It supports the OWASP DevSecOps pipeline, offering tools (we just reuse open source tools but provide a simplified wrapper cli) for secret scanning (coming soon), SAST (coming soon), SCA, container scanning, IaC scanning (coming soon) and DAST (coming soon).
2. Automated Security Monitoring: Continuous monitoring using Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) to keep your projects secure.
3. Risk Assessment: Automatically assesses and prioritizes risks to help you address the most critical vulnerabilities first — no really, we do this pragmatically and automate where possible! (Our base: CVSS, exploitdb, EPSS)
4. Compliance: Ensures your projects meet security standards like ISO/IEC 27001 and PCI-DSS.
5. Security and confidentiality: We prioritize the security of this software! In an expansion stage and in cooperation with research institutions, we want to make confidential data processing usable for the secure handling of sensitive information (confidential computing).

Demo

We are using DevGuard to scan and manage the risks of DevGuard itself—essentially eating our own dogfood. The project can be found here: Public DevGuard Project

We believe VEX information should be shared via a link due to its dynamic nature, as what is risk-free today may be affected by a CVE tomorrow. We’ve integrated the DevGuard risk scoring into the metrics, with detailed documentation on its calculation to follow soon. SBOM and VEX data are always up to date at these links:

License

DevGuard’s source code is distributed under the AGPL-3.0-or-later license. See our LICENSE.txt for more information.

Sponsors & Partners

We are proud to be supported and working together with the following organizations: