Show HN: Assertly – scriptable monitoring for infosec, IT, compliance, DevOps

📰 Hacker News · JakaJancar

Hey HN! Jaka here, solo founder of Assertly ( https://www.assertly.com ). Assertly is a monitoring tool for continuous infosec, IT, compliance and DevOps regression testing. It enables teams to automate periodic checks using JavaScript. Before Assertly, I was the CTO of Celtra ( https://celtra.com ), a B2B SaaS company, for over 10 years, from “git init” to 250 people and the company’s sale to private equity. I was primarily responsible for product strategy, engineering, QA, DevOps, but also for IT and InfoSec. I found that ensuring security, integrity, privacy, and compliance in peripheral and internal IT systems was often harder than for our core product. While for the latter we would write tests and rely on our CI/CD pipeline, for other systems, things would be written up in policies where adherence is hoped for but rarely verified. If it is verified, it is done so manually and infrequently (e.g. quarterly). More laborious, while giving less assurance. Today

Published 5 Sept 2024
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