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DevSecOps platform leads sit at the intersection of platform engineering, application security, and security engineering. The role owns the developer security platform strategy across hundreds or thousands of repositories: which scanners run, on what cadence, with what credential model, against which compliance frameworks, with which severity thresholds, through which gating model, and reported up against which OKRs and KPIs. SecPortal pairs engagement records per workstream, findings management with CVSS 3.1 and owner-of-record, code scanning via Semgrep against connected GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket repositories under OAuth, authenticated DAST with AES-256-GCM encrypted credential storage, external scanning across the verified perimeter, continuous monitoring on daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly cadences, bulk finding import for legacy scanner output, retesting workflows, finding overrides, compliance tracking across OWASP ASVS, OWASP SAMM, NIST SSDF, ISO 27001 Annex A, SOC 2, PCI DSS, NIST SP 800-53, NIST CSF 2.0, and the other 21 supported frameworks, AI-assisted reporting, role-based access control, multi-factor authentication, and an append-only activity log on one workspace, so the DevSecOps programme reads from one record rather than from a SAST console, a separate SCA console, an authenticated DAST tool, an external attack surface scanner, an inbox of pentest PDFs, an OKR spreadsheet, a vendor evaluation matrix, and a steering committee deck rebuilt from scratch.

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A leadership platform for the head of DevSecOps who owns the developer security stack

DevSecOps platform leads sit at the intersection of platform engineering, application security, and security engineering. The role owns the developer security platform strategy across hundreds or thousands of repositories: which scanners run, on what cadence, with what credential model, against which compliance frameworks, with which severity thresholds, through which gating model, and reported up against which OKRs and KPIs. Most security tooling is built for one phase of that picture, so the DevSecOps platform lead spends each quarter reassembling the leadership view from a SAST console, a separate SCA console, an authenticated DAST tool, an external attack surface scanner, an inbox of third-party pentest PDFs, an OKR spreadsheet, a vendor evaluation matrix, and a steering committee deck rebuilt from scratch.

SecPortal gives DevSecOps platform leads one workspace for code scans from the Git provider under OAuth, authenticated DAST against deployed services with AES-256-GCM encrypted credentials, external scans across the verified perimeter, scheduled runs on daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly cadences, bulk finding import for legacy scanner output, retesting workflows, finding overrides, multi-framework compliance tracking, AI-assisted programme reporting, role-based access control with multi-factor authentication enforced, and an append-only activity log. The leadership view, the platform owner view, the AppSec view, the engineering view, and the audit view all read the same record rather than five reconciled artefacts.

Capabilities DevSecOps platform leads operate on

Engagement records per DevSecOps workstream

Open an engagement per leadership workstream (scanner stack rollout, repository onboarding cohort, authenticated DAST rollout, OWASP ASVS verification baseline, NIST SSDF practice adoption, SLSA level uplift, scanner vendor evaluation cycle, OKR review, KPI review, audit committee read). The plan, the application list, the per-application coverage matrix, the verification level mapping, the practice evidence, the OKR artefacts, and the steering committee minutes attach as documents on the same record. The DevSecOps programme reads from one workspace rather than from a slide deck, a Confluence space, a spreadsheet of scanner exports, and a folder of vendor evaluation matrices.

One findings backlog across the developer security platform

Every SAST result from Semgrep-based code scanning, every SCA dependency finding, every authenticated DAST result from pages behind the login screen, every external scan result across the verified perimeter, every manually logged third-party pentest finding, and every bulk-imported Nessus, Burp, or CSV result lands on the engagement record for the application or service with an auto-calculated CVSS 3.1 vector, severity, evidence, named owner, and remediation status. The DevSecOps lead reads the platform backlog from one queue rather than from four scanner consoles, an inbox of pentest PDFs, and a triage spreadsheet maintained by a junior on the team.

Code scanning from one OAuth connection per Git provider

Connect GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket once at the workspace level under OAuth and let Semgrep-based SAST and dependency auditing through SCA run on the repositories the platform monitors. The scanner stack rollout is one OAuth flow per provider rather than per-repository CI plumbing, secret rotation across hundreds of pipelines, or a multi-quarter platform engineering backlog of vendor connector work. The repository connection scope is workspace-scoped rather than per-engineer, so removing a team member does not break the live scan jobs the developer platform depends on.

Authenticated DAST with AES-256-GCM encrypted credentials

Authenticated DAST runs against pages that sit behind the login screen with cookie, bearer token, basic auth, or form login modes. Credentials are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM, scoped to a verified domain, gated through the manage_credentials permission, and every lifecycle event (created, used, rotated, revoked) lands in the activity log. CREDENTIAL_ENCRYPTION_KEY_PREVIOUS support keeps credential rotation a tracked operation rather than a tribal-knowledge handover. The DevSecOps lead can standardise authenticated scanning across tier-one applications without storing credentials in a shared password manager.

External scanning across the verified perimeter

External scanning runs across 16 modules covering subdomain enumeration, ports, headers, TLS, exposed cloud storage, leaked credentials, and tech-stack fingerprinting against the verified perimeter. The DevSecOps platform owner reads attack surface change from the same record the code-side scanners and the authenticated DAST runs land on rather than from a separate attack surface management console. Domain verification through DNS TXT, HTML meta tag, or .well-known file gates every scan, so the platform never produces traffic against assets the workspace does not actually own.

Continuous monitoring on daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly cadences

Scheduled scan runs cover external, authenticated, and code scans on daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly cadences. The schedule is workspace-scoped rather than a fleet of cron entries on the platform team backlog, and the scan diff endpoint surfaces new, fixed, and unchanged findings between runs so reviewers triage what changed rather than re-reading every finding on every cycle. The DevSecOps lead sets the cadence per asset tier on the engagement record once and the platform inherits the cadence from then on.

Bulk finding import for legacy scanner output and third-party pentest results

Import findings from Nessus, Burp Suite, or any CSV with custom column mapping so legacy scanner output and third-party pentest results join the same backlog as new findings rather than fragmenting across tools. The DevSecOps platform leadership migration story does not require an all-at-once cutover; legacy scanners and inherited pentest PDFs migrate onto the consolidated record on the schedule the platform team chooses.

Cross-framework compliance tracking

Compliance tracking maps engagement records and findings against OWASP ASVS verification levels, OWASP SAMM practices, NIST SSDF practices, ISO 27001 Annex A, SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria, PCI DSS requirements, NIST SP 800-53 control families, NIST CSF 2.0 functions, Cyber Essentials, and the other 21 supported frameworks on the same record. One mapping satisfies multiple audit packs and a per-application engagement record can read against ASVS verification level, SAMM practice score, NIST SSDF practice evidence, and SOC 2 CC7 evidence in parallel.

AI-assisted DevSecOps programme reporting

AI-assisted reporting regenerates DevSecOps executive summaries, per-application status writeups, scanner stack coverage readouts, OKR progress narratives, KPI summaries, programme remediation roadmaps, vendor evaluation summaries, and compliance summaries from the live engagement data on demand. The CISO readout, the steering committee deck, the audit committee report, the engineering leadership readout, and the post-cycle retrospective regenerate from the same record the DevSecOps platform owner operates on.

Role-based access control with multi-factor authentication enforced

Role-based access control covers owner, admin, member, viewer, and billing roles. Repository connections, credentials, schedules, finding access, and per-application engagement records are gated by RBAC rather than by per-tool user models. Middleware promotes sessions to AAL2 when MFA is required, so the access model is enforced rather than asserted. The DevSecOps leadership view, the platform engineer view, the application developer view, and the audit observer view all read the same record at the access level RBAC grants.

Append-only activity log with CSV export

Every finding update, scan run, document upload, retest run, exception decision, comment, credential lifecycle event, repository connection change, schedule change, and team change is recorded with the actor, the entity, the timestamp, and the action. Plan retention covers 30, 90, or 365 days, and CSV export keeps the platform trail reproducible at audit, vendor due-diligence, or post-incident review time without a multi-team excavation of email, chat history, and scanner console logs.

Retesting workflows and finding overrides on the same record

Retesting workflows pair the post-fix replay to the original finding and move the state from in_progress to resolved or verified on the same record. Finding overrides capture accepted-risk decisions and false-positive suppressions with the named owner, the business rationale, the linked compensating control, and the expiry on the same record. The DevSecOps platform owner reads the open backlog, the accepted-risk register, and the verified-close history from one query rather than from three reconciled spreadsheets.

How DevSecOps platform leads operate the programme inside SecPortal

A developer security platform that holds up across hundreds of repositories, dozens of teams, and multiple audit cycles operates on a small set of disciplines. The DevSecOps platform lead inherits each one rather than carving out a parallel operating model per scanner vendor.

  • Treat the developer security platform as a product the rest of engineering inherits rather than as a release-blocking checklist engineers learn to route around. Scanner stack, scheduled scans, encrypted credentials, repository connections, and the consolidated finding queue are platform primitives the DevSecOps platform owner standardises once.
  • Run code scans on a schedule rather than as a synchronous CI gate so the developer-experience cost is the diff review on the next cycle, not a wait-on-CI delay on every push. The scan diff endpoint surfaces deltas between runs so reviewers triage what changed and the DevSecOps lead reads scanner coverage drift from the same record.
  • Set the scanner stack standard at the workspace level rather than per-team. SAST, SCA, authenticated DAST, external scans, and bulk-imported third-party pentest findings consolidate on one engagement record per application, so the stack standard is observable on the live record rather than declared in a Confluence page that drifts away from operational reality.
  • Pick the gating model deliberately. Critical and high findings on tier-one applications can carry tight SLA windows with named owners, and lower severity findings can be deferred or accepted with a written rationale captured on the finding override. The DevSecOps lead reads the gating model effect on the live backlog rather than on a policy document that never gets exercised.
  • Store every authenticated-scan credential and scanner-related secret in the encrypted credential vault so cookie, bearer, basic, and form login credentials stop circulating in shared password managers, environment variables, and platform-owned wiki pages. The credential rotation cadence sits on the engagement record and the activity log records every credential change with the actor and the timestamp.
  • Use role-based access control to scope DevSecOps leadership, platform engineers, application security analysts, application developers, security reviewers, audit observers, and the steering committee participants to the access they actually need, and require multi-factor authentication so the access model is enforced rather than asserted in an onboarding email.
  • Keep an append-only activity trail so the question of who triaged what, who rotated which credential, who changed which schedule, who accepted which risk, and who verified which retest has a single defensible answer at audit time. The trail is one record across scanner, credential, finding, retest, override, and access events rather than five reconciled logs maintained by hand.
  • Report DevSecOps programme KPIs and OKRs from the live operating record rather than from a quarterly slide deck rebuilt from scratch every cycle. AI-assisted reporting regenerates the executive summary, the per-application status writeup, the scanner stack coverage readout, the OKR progress narrative, and the compliance summary from the same engagement data the platform owner runs on, so the leadership view does not drift from operational reality.

From verified perimeter to executive readout, on one platform record

The DevSecOps platform leadership loop is verify the perimeter, connect the Git providers, store the credentials, schedule the runs, set the framework mapping, operate the access model, and report up. SecPortal runs a single workflow that the DevSecOps platform lead, the platform engineer, the application security analyst, the application developer, and the security leader can all work against without re-keying state into another tool.

  1. 1Open a workspace and verify the domains and the perimeter the developer security platform is authorised to scan. Domain verification through DNS TXT, HTML meta tag, or .well-known file is the precondition that gates every external, authenticated, and continuous scan that follows. The DevSecOps platform lead treats verification as a one-time setup the rest of engineering inherits.
  2. 2Connect GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket through OAuth at the workspace level and pick the repositories the platform monitors. Schedule Semgrep-based SAST and dependency auditing through SCA on the repositories the developer security platform owns or operates. Findings land on the same engagement record as authenticated DAST and external scans, so the developer platform exposes one finding queue rather than a fleet of scanner-specific dashboards.
  3. 3Add the credentials authenticated scans need (cookie, bearer token, basic auth, form login) to the encrypted credential vault. Credentials are scoped to a verified domain, gated through the manage_credentials permission, and every lifecycle event is captured in the activity log so rotation is a tracked operation rather than a tribal-knowledge handover from one platform engineer to another.
  4. 4Set scan schedules per asset tier on the engagement record. Continuous monitoring runs daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly schedules for external, authenticated, and code scans, and the scan diff endpoint surfaces new, fixed, and unchanged findings between runs. The schedule is part of the developer security platform, not a cron file on the platform team backlog.
  5. 5Map the engagement record against the verification frameworks the DevSecOps programme reports against. Compliance tracking maps the same record against OWASP ASVS verification levels, OWASP SAMM practices, NIST SSDF practices, ISO 27001 Annex A, SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria, PCI DSS requirements, NIST CSF 2.0 functions, and the other 21 supported frameworks in parallel, so one mapping satisfies multiple audit packs.
  6. 6Operate the platform under role-based access control with multi-factor authentication enforced at the workspace level. Repository connections, credentials, schedules, and finding access are workspace-scoped rather than per-engineer, so removing a team member, a re-org, or a vendor change does not break the live scan jobs the developer security platform depends on.
  7. 7Report up to engineering leadership, the CISO, the steering committee, and the audit committee from the live record. AI-assisted reporting regenerates the executive summary, the per-application status writeup, the scanner stack coverage readout, the OKR progress narrative, the KPI summary, and the compliance summary from the same engagement data the DevSecOps platform lead runs on, so the leadership view stays anchored to operational reality between cycles.

Where the DevSecOps leadership view connects to the rest of the workspace

Most DevSecOps platform leads adopt SecPortal in three phases: bring code-side scanning and the consolidated finding queue into one workspace so the developer security platform exposes a single record, layer in encrypted credentials and continuous monitoring so authenticated scans actually run on a schedule with a credential rotation story, then consolidate role-based access, multi-factor authentication, compliance tracking, and the activity log so the platform meets the audit posture the rest of the organisation operates against. The relevant feature, workflow, and research pages explain each phase in detail.

For DevSecOps platform leads evaluating against bundled enterprise vendors

DevSecOps platform leads evaluating consolidation tend to compare SecPortal against developer-first SAST and SCA suites, against bundled Git-provider scanners, against connector-aggregator ASPM platforms, against issue trackers used as a vulnerability tool, and against open source findings hubs. The detailed side-by-side comparisons cover the operational footprint and the platform-leadership integration cost on each model.

  • The SecPortal vs Snyk comparison covers the platform leadership trade-off between a developer-first SAST and SCA suite and a consolidated workspace where authenticated DAST, external scans, and code scans share the same engagement record.
  • The SecPortal vs GitHub Advanced Security comparison covers a workspace-scoped engagement record versus a Git-provider-bundled scanner where authenticated DAST, external scanning, and the scanner-agnostic finding queue live in different places.
  • The SecPortal vs ArmorCode comparison covers the trade-off between a connector-aggregator ASPM model and a workspace where the scanners themselves run rather than only being aggregated.
  • The SecPortal vs Semgrep comparison covers the platform leadership decision between standalone SAST tooling and a workspace that pairs Semgrep-based code scanning with authenticated DAST, external scans, and the consolidated finding queue.
  • The SecPortal vs DefectDojo comparison covers the platform leadership move from a self-hosted findings hub to a managed delivery platform with authenticated scanning, encrypted credential storage, AI reporting, and a workspace-scoped audit trail.

SecPortal is built for DevSecOps platform leads who want one platform for the full verify-connect-store-schedule-triage-report loop: live findings, SAST and SCA from the Git provider under OAuth, authenticated DAST against deployed services with encrypted credentials, external scanning across the verified perimeter, scheduled runs with diff-aware regression detection, retesting workflows, finding overrides, multi-framework compliance tracking, AI-assisted programme reporting, role-based access control, multi- factor authentication, and an append-only activity log. The leadership view, the platform owner view, the AppSec view, the engineering view, and the audit view all read the same record rather than five reconciled artefacts.

If your function sits closer to operating the developer platform itself rather than to leading the DevSecOps strategy across applications, the sister page SecPortal for platform engineering teams covers the developer-platform integration cost, the OAuth connector model, scheduled scans, encrypted credentials, and the workspace-scoped access model from the platform-engineering side.

If your function sits closer to running the pipeline security work day to day rather than to owning the DevSecOps platform strategy, the SecPortal for DevSecOps teams page covers SAST and SCA from the Git provider, authenticated DAST on a schedule, and the operating model that makes security testing continuous rather than release-blocking.

If your function spans the multi-year AppSec discipline plan with OWASP ASVS verification cycles and OWASP SAMM or BSIMM-style measurement cycles rather than the developer security platform itself, the SecPortal for application security program leads page covers engagement records per AppSec workstream, the per-application coverage matrix, and the multi-framework verification mapping the AppSec programme reports against.

If your function spans building the security tooling itself rather than operating it as a developer platform, the SecPortal for security engineering teams page covers scanner orchestration, scheduled SAST and SCA, authenticated DAST with encrypted credentials, RBAC, MFA, and the append-only activity log from the security-engineering side.

If the DevSecOps platform reports up to a security leader who needs the leadership view on the same record the platform operates from, the SecPortal for CISOs and security leaders page covers the program-level reporting workflow that sits on top of the platform record without rebuilding a deck every quarter.

The problems you face

And how SecPortal solves each one.

The DevSecOps platform strategy lives in a slide deck, the scanner stack standard in a Confluence page, the per-application coverage matrix in a spreadsheet, the OKRs in a parallel doc, and the KPI dashboard in a Looker workbook that connects to scanner exports through a custom ETL the platform owns and maintains

Open an engagement per leadership workstream (scanner stack rollout, repository onboarding cohort, authenticated DAST rollout, OWASP ASVS verification baseline, NIST SSDF practice adoption, SLSA level uplift, scanner vendor evaluation cycle, OKR review, KPI review, audit committee read). The plan, the application list, the per-application coverage matrix, the verification level mapping, the practice evidence, the OKR artefacts, the KPI numbers, and the steering committee minutes attach as documents on the same record. The DevSecOps programme reads from one workspace rather than from a slide deck, a Confluence space, a spreadsheet of scanner exports, and a folder of vendor evaluation matrices, and the picture survives staff rotation, scanner migrations, and reorganisations.

Scanner coverage is uneven across the application portfolio, but the DevSecOps platform lead cannot answer in one query which applications run SAST, which run SCA, which run authenticated DAST, which have a current external scan, which are on the agreed scanner stack standard, and which carry inherited pentest findings nobody has triaged

Connect GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket via OAuth at the workspace level and run Semgrep-based SAST and dependency auditing across the repositories in scope. Authenticated DAST runs against pages behind the login screen with AES-256-GCM encrypted credentials. External scanning across 16 modules runs on the verified perimeter. Bulk finding import covers legacy Nessus, Burp Suite, and any CSV with custom column mapping for third-party pentest findings. Every scan execution and finding lands on the engagement record for the application, so per-application coverage reads from one query against the live record rather than from a coverage spreadsheet the DevSecOps platform lead maintains by hand.

The DevSecOps gating model is a policy document that engineers learned to route around because every scanner runs as a synchronous CI gate, every release is held hostage to a noisy SAST run, and the DevSecOps platform lead spends each retro defending the gates against the next push to disable them

Continuous monitoring runs scheduled scans on daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly cadences rather than as synchronous CI gates. The scan diff endpoint surfaces new, fixed, and unchanged findings between runs so reviewers triage what changed. Critical and high findings on tier-one applications can carry tight SLA windows with named owners, and lower severity findings can be deferred or accepted with a written rationale captured on a finding override. The DevSecOps platform lead reads the gating model effect on the live backlog rather than on a policy document that never gets exercised.

Authenticated DAST is the work the DevSecOps platform lead committed to and the team never operationalised because the credential rotation story was unowned, the credentials lived in a shared password manager, and the platform team had to rebuild the access model from scratch for each new tier-one application

Store cookie, bearer token, basic auth, or form login credentials in the AES-256-GCM encrypted credential vault inside the workspace. Credentials are scoped to a verified domain, gated through the manage_credentials permission, and every lifecycle event (created, used, rotated, revoked) lands in the activity log. CREDENTIAL_ENCRYPTION_KEY_PREVIOUS support keeps rotation a tracked operation. The DevSecOps platform lead standardises authenticated scanning across tier-one applications without storing credentials in a shared password manager.

DevSecOps OKR and KPI reporting into engineering leadership, the CISO, the steering committee, and the audit committee is a multi-day copy-paste exercise across scanner exports, ticket comments, threat model spreadsheets, and last-cycle decks, and the leadership view drifts away from the operational reality the platform owner runs on between cycles

AI-assisted reporting regenerates DevSecOps executive summaries, per-application status writeups, scanner stack coverage readouts, OKR progress narratives, KPI summaries, programme remediation roadmaps, vendor evaluation summaries, and compliance summaries from the live engagement data on demand. The CISO readout, the steering committee deck, the audit committee report, the engineering leadership readout, and the post-cycle retrospective read from the same record the DevSecOps platform owner operates on.

Compliance asks the DevSecOps platform lead for evidence that the developer security platform operates against OWASP ASVS verification levels, OWASP SAMM practices, NIST SSDF practices, ISO 27001 Annex A, SOC 2 CC7 and CC8, and PCI DSS 6.3 and 6.4, and the team assembles parallel evidence packs from scanner output, ticket comments, threat model spreadsheets, and review notes each audit cycle

Compliance tracking maps the same engagement record against OWASP ASVS verification levels, OWASP SAMM practices, NIST SSDF practices, ISO 27001 Annex A, SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria, PCI DSS requirements, NIST SP 800-53 control families, NIST CSF 2.0 functions, and the other 21 supported frameworks in parallel. One mapping satisfies multiple audit packs and CSV export of findings, control status, and the activity trail is available when the auditor wants the trail in their own format.

DevSecOps vendor management for the SAST tool, the SCA tool, the DAST tool, the secrets-scanning tool, the threat modelling tool, and the bug bounty platform is a parallel track of contracts, renewals, evaluation matrices, and migration plans, and the platform lead spends each renewal cycle reassembling the evaluation evidence from scratch

Run scanner stack evaluation cycles as engagement records that capture the evaluation criteria, the comparison evidence, the migration plan, and the decision record on one workspace. Engagement records for the prior cycle become the evidence trail the next renewal cycle reads from, so the evaluation work compounds rather than restarts. The platform RFP template, the vendor scorecard template, and the comparison matrix tooling sit in /tools and link directly to the live evaluation engagement.

Inherited pentest findings live in a folder of PDFs, never make it into the developer security platform backlog, and the audit committee reads "300 open findings" off a dashboard that does not reconcile with the 47 findings the engineering team is actually working on

Bulk finding import covers Nessus, Burp Suite, and any CSV with custom column mapping, so third-party pentest findings and legacy scanner output join the same backlog as new findings rather than fragmenting across tools. Retesting workflows pair the post-fix replay to the original finding, and finding overrides capture accepted-risk decisions and false-positive suppressions with the named owner, rationale, linked compensating control, and expiry on the same record. The DevSecOps platform lead reads the open backlog, the accepted-risk register, and the verified-close history from one query.

The DevSecOps audit trail across SAST, SCA, authenticated DAST, external scans, credential rotations, schedule changes, retest decisions, and access changes is rebuilt from chat history each cycle, and scanner migration, vendor change, and team rotation all break the narrative

The activity log records every finding update, scan run, document upload, retest run, exception decision, comment, credential lifecycle event, repository connection change, schedule change, and team change with the actor, the entity, the timestamp, and the action. Plan retention covers 30, 90, or 365 days, and CSV export keeps the platform trail reproducible at audit, vendor due-diligence, or post-incident review time. Role-based access control scopes DevSecOps leadership, platform engineers, application developers, security reviewers, audit observers, and the steering committee participants to the engagements they actually need, and multi-factor authentication is enforced on every workspace account.

Run DevSecOps platform leadership on one record

Engagement records per workstream, code scanning across connected repositories under OAuth, authenticated DAST with AES-256-GCM encrypted credentials, external scanning across the verified perimeter, continuous monitoring on scheduled cadences, bulk finding import for legacy scanner output, multi-framework compliance tracking that covers OWASP ASVS, OWASP SAMM, NIST SSDF, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and PCI DSS, AI-assisted programme reporting, role-based access control with enforced multi-factor authentication, and an append-only activity log on a single workspace. Free plan available.

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