GitSecOps: Why Compliance Only Works When Teams Can Prove What They Deliver — Not Just Promise It

Many organizations are working hard to meet NIS2, DORA, or supply-chain-security requirements.
And yet they still fail at a point that seems almost trivial:

👉 They can’t technically prove what actually happened.

Auditors ask:
“Show me when, by whom, …


This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Manuel Engelhardt

Many organizations are working hard to meet NIS2, DORA, or supply-chain-security requirements.
And yet they still fail at a point that seems almost trivial:

👉 They can’t technically prove what actually happened.

Auditors ask:
“Show me when, by whom, why, how, and with what something was deployed.”

And the usual reality is:
— 7 tools
— 5 ticket systems
— 0 unified evidence
— 100% headache

The solution is simple — but hard to enforce:

Everything that matters must live versioned in Git.

Code

IaC

Policies-as-Code

Pipelines

Evidence

Risk decisions

Recovery paths

Not scattered.
Not “documented somewhere.”
But commit-based, signed, traceable.

That turns Git into the Technical Source of Trust.

And suddenly NIS2 & DORA become things you can prove, not just answer vaguely.

🔐 NIS2

End-to-end automated traceability across the entire software supply chain — without manual heroism.

🧩 DORA

Operational resilience by design through reproducible recovery paths and verifiable risk decisions.

🇪🇺 Digital Sovereignty

Sovereign code hosting: the technical proof that you operate independently, controllably, and audit-ready.

What GitSecOps Changes in Practice

No more “documentation theater”

Auditors review technical evidence — not slide decks

Dev, Sec, and Ops speak from the same data

Every decision is versioned

Every deviation is visible

Every delivery is auditable

Why I'm Writing About This

I build systems that prove trust — not promise it.
And GitSecOps is the first approach that puts compliance on a technical foundation without slowing down teams.

If you want to see how GitSecOps can be implemented in practice, I regularly share patterns, examples, and real use cases here.


This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Manuel Engelhardt


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