Scribe vs. DevOps Platforms

Leading DevOps platforms, such as GitHub, GitLab, Harness, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps, deliver robust source control, CI/CD pipelines, built-in vulnerability scanning, and seamless integration with third-party tools. These capabilities empower AppSec teams to detect, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities early in the development process.

However, true DevSecOps requires more than that. Modern software factories span dozens of repositories, pipelines, registries, and environments, stretching from development to production. This complexity introduces significant challenges around visibility, governance, compliance, exposing teams to supply‑chain tampering.

Many organizations operate with a heterogeneous mix of tools and platforms, shaped by best-of-breed strategies, legacy systems, or mergers and acquisitions. In these fragmented environments, DevSecOps leaders often struggle to answer fundamental questions:

• Where did this container originate?
• Which code repository produces each production artifact, and who owns its security posture findings?
• Have all artifacts passed the required security checks?

They also need to enforce and demonstrate core development controls, such as:

• Signing and verifying code and artifacts across the SDLC
• Tracking the provenance of all production artifacts
• Ensuring all required scanners have run and code reviews are completed
• Applying policy-as-code gates in CI/CD and at deployment

Enforcing admission control in production based on SDLC attestations

Attempting to correlate this information manually across disparate systems is labor-intensive, error-prone, and introduces blind spots that attackers can exploit.

What’s Missing?

What’s often lacking is a robust, verifiable attestation framework — one that captures tamper-proof evidence of every security control applied across each stage of the software lifecycle. This framework should serve as a single source of truth for software governance, integrity, provenance, and compliance.

While DevOps platforms like GitHub and GitLab provide valuable capabilities, they fall short in key areas:

• They don’t provide end-to-end SDLC coverage
• They lack native admission control enforcement
  

They don’t address multi-tool, multi-environment realities of enterprise software factories

The Scribe Security Approach

ScribeHub, Scribe Security’s continuous assurance platform, is purpose-built to close these gaps. It offers a unified, end-to-end solution for SDLC integrity, provenance, and policy enforcement across complex, multi-platform environments.

SDLC Discovery & Asset Mapping

Automatically maps your software ecosystem across SCMs, CI/CD systems, artifact registries, and Kubernetes clusters—without manual configuration.

 Unified Evidence Graph

Creates a complete code-to-production lineage linking commits, SBOMs, container images, scan results, policy decisions, and runtime workloads.

Centralized Attestation Store

Collects and stores signed evidence such as build provenance, SBOMs, vulnerability scans, VEX advisories, and policy evaluations in a tamper-proof evidence repository.

Policy-as-Code Enforcement

Allows you to author policies as code, verify and enforce them at key SDLC checkpoints—including source control, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes deployment gates.

Secure Chain of Custody

Uses enterprise PKI or Sigstore to cryptographically sign each SDLC step, blocking unsigned or tampered artifacts via automated integrity checks.

Compliance Automation

Maps evidence against frameworks like SLSA, NIST SSDF, CIS Benchmarks, OWASP SAMM, and DORA—automatically generating audit-ready reports for every release.

Together, these capabilities offer a verifiable, scalable, and frictionless way to operationalize software supply chain security and compliance.