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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.

payments-api

$ 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  1. Developer workspace

    Written

    In the developer workspace, the workspace sensor records how code was written, before anyone switches context.

  2. 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.

  3. 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
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.

  • Blackstone

    98%

    of production deploys ship automatically

  • 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.

Dan Cuthbert Head of Security Research, Gruppo Santander

We wrote the book. This is the sequel.

Crash Override, 2022

  • Mark Curphey: founded OWASP in 2001.

  • 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

See it on your own code.

30 minutes with our team, on a repo you pick.