DevSecOps X-Ray for Atlassian Admins [August 2025]

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G’day Atlassian Community! 👋

As summer winds down, the business calendar heats up with events, meetups, webinars, and plenty of fresh updates. Take a cup of coffee (or tea) and dive into GitProtect’s DevOps X-Ray for Atlassian Admins!

📚 News & Resources

Blog Post 📝| Our Q4 FY25 letter to shareholders: Atlassian frames the quarter around three bets: Enterprise, AI, and System of Work. There is an emphasis on Teamwork Collection and Rovo, plus a new Google Cloud partnership to push AI at scale. Also important to note - a leadership update, Anu Bharadwaj will be stepping away at the end of the year 2025. 👉 More details

Blog Post 📝| 1 Billion Build Minutes Later: How we reinvented CI/CD at Atlassian: Atlassian standardized on Bitbucket Pipelines across 9,000+ users and now runs more than one billion build minutes each month. Build time dropped from six hours to about ninety minutes, maintenance windows disappeared, and Dynamic Pipelines helped a Jira team cut build costs by about 45 percent. 👉 Read now

Blog Post 📝| How to protect your Finance and Banking DevOps data: Fintech and banking were among 2024’s most targeted sectors. Find out why attacks are rising and what actually works to mitigate them: shift-left DevSecOps, strong access controls, continuous assessments and monitoring, plus a tested backup & DR plan that meets compliance. 👉 Read now

Blog Post 📝| From contextual understanding to execution: AI that truly works as part of your team: Rovo Chat is not just about answers but also about action. It plans multi-step tasks, works across Atlassian and popular SaaS apps, and uses org-aware memory from the Teamwork Graph to stay in context. You can schedule meetings, update docs, or email straight from chat. 👉 Explore further

Blog Post 📝| People power the path to AI innovation: In this article, you can get into a 4-month study where 54 participants were split into 3 groups to measure brain activity. The first group had access to ChatGPT, the second group had access to online research, and the third group had no tools. The results showed that the more help participants got, the smaller their brain activity was. Curious? 👉 Full article

Blog Post 📝| Dev Platform Breaches: How GitHub, Jira & Confluence Exposed Mercedes, Apple, Disney & Others: Real incidents show how small slips in Dev platforms (leaked tokens, exposed Jira/Confluence, weaponized repos) turned into data leaks and supply-chain risk for some of the biggest brands. This recap outlines what failed and what to lock down next, namely, secrets hygiene, platform security, and treating CI/CD and metadata with more caution. 👉 Full article

🗓️ Upcoming events

Webinar 🎙️| DevOps Backup Academy: Top tricks to make Jira & DevOps backups loved by admins and trusted by security leaders | Sep 10, 2025 | 9am CEST: There are two kinds of people: those who have backups and those who will. Whether you’re a Jira Admin, DevOps engineer, or security lead, this session will show you how to build backup workflows that are effortless, resilient, compliant, and fast to restore. Turn backups from an afterthought into a competitive advantage. 👉 Take part 

Event 🪐| ACE Berlin: September Edition | Berlin, Germany | Sep 18, 5:30 - 9:00pm CEST: Evening meetup with three quick hits: making Confluence a real knowledge hub, cloud compliance and license efficiency, and keeping teams in sync without micromanagement - then networking & pizza. 👉 Take part

Event 🪐| Developer Day | Dallas, TX, USA | Sep 23, 2025: Check out this event to get first looks at Rovo Dev, Bitbucket, and Forge, learn straight from Atlassian product leaders and engineers, and put it to work in real hands-on workshops. Come for the AI & DevEx roadmap, build skills, grow your network, and leave with skills you can utilize in your work. 👉 Participate

Webinar 🎙️| DevOps Backup Academy: DevOps Data Recoverability Playbook for every scenario | Sep 24, 2025 | 9 am CEST: Disaster? Migration? Accidental deletion? Whether you’re facing a small issue or a full-blown outage, this session will provide you with a practical framework for DevOps data recovery. Check out how to use cross-restore, apply granular vs. full DR, and build an “every-scenario-ready” recovery plan trusted by leading DevOps teams. 👉 Register now

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