Software Observability for application security
We stop bad code.
Where it's written, where it's built, and before it reaches production. Crash Override gives security teams independent, deterministic facts about what was built, what's inside it and what's running.
$ git push origin main
# build 4821 started
record signed by the build sensor
commit 8f3c2a1
policy no high or critical CVEs
found lodash CVE-2021-23337
✗ held build 4821 does not ship
fix upgrade lodash to 4.17.21
# reason and evidence on the record
AI is working for both sides.
Your teams ship ten times the code. Attackers use AI to find complex flaws in minutes. When anyone can find the flaw, the only defense is not shipping it.
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Lines of code
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Mythos-class exploits
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Hockey-stick risk
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Production hygiene
Prevent. Can this ship?
Every build is checked against your policy before it ships. Bad code is held, with the reason and a fix.
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Exposure response
Respond. Are we exposed?
When a malicious package hits the news, see every service running it, or that ever ran it, in minutes.
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Continuous evidence
Prove. Can you prove it?
Evidence for the board, auditors and regulators from what was actually built and run. Current every time you ask.
Facts, not guesses.
A new wave of security tools points a model at your code and logs and asks it what happened. A model can only infer, and two runs can give you two answers. We don't use AI to secure AI. We record what happens, as it happens, and sign it.
From repository to runtime
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Developer workspace
Written
In the developer workspace, the workspace sensor records how code was written, before anyone switches context.
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Build
Built
At build time, the build sensor adds a signed record to every artifact: what it is, where it came from and what's inside it.
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Production
Running
In production, that record travels with the artifact and reports where it runs. Pick any service and see what's inside it, which commit it came from and when it shipped.
Data plane
One data plane connects all three, so every answer traces back to its source.
The alternative, spelled out
| AI-based security tools | Crash Override | |
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| How they know | A model reads scanner output and logs, then infers | Sensors record it where it happens |
| Ask the same question twice | Can get two different answers | Same answer, every time |
| "Can you prove it?" | "The model said so" | A signed record, traced to the commit |
| Who decides what ships | The model | Your policy, approved by your security team. No model makes the decision |
Less work, not more
At Blackstone, 98% of production deploys ship automatically. The AppSec team reviews only the 1 to 2% that need a human, and those arrive with the evidence attached.
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Blackstone
98%
of production deploys ship automatically
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Toyota
45,000
production workloads tracked within two hours of deployment
How in $h1ts name was this not made before??? Because it's really, really, really hard to do of course.
We wrote the book. This is the sequel.
Crash Override, 2022
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Mark Curphey: founded OWASP in 2001.
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John Viega: wrote the first book on software security.
They founded Crash Override in 2022, with a leadership team from NS1 and GitLab.
Meet the founders