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DIRA · درع

A zero-dependency security scanner that answers the question every pre-seed founder gets asked: "is this codebase safe enough to sell to an enterprise?" One command, one readiness score, MIT licensed.

Open-source core live · v1.5.0 · pre-revenue on paid tiers

The Problem

No security hire, no clean answer.

Enterprise buyers now gate contracts on a security questionnaire before signature. A pre-seed or seed team has no security hire and two bad options: a platform priced for a team they don't have, or five uncoordinated point tools (gitleaks, trufflehog, semgrep, npm audit) nobody wires into one answer.

The Product

Seven scanners, one command.

Secrets (24 patterns + entropy) · dependency CVEs via OSV.dev (5 ecosystems) · 38 config/IaC rules (Docker, K8s, Terraform, GitHub Actions, cloud, frontend, LLM apps) · git-history leaks · live TLS & security headers · license risk + SBOM (CycloneDX/SPDX) · an 18-check, 80-point startup security-readiness score.

  • pipx install git+https://github.com/Yusuf-Gadelrab/dira@v1.5.0 — installs and runs today
  • 208 passing tests, zero runtime dependencies, MIT licensed
  • Two optional paid tiers (Readiness Report $149, Deep Audit $499) — built, zero sales to date
208
passing tests
7
scanner classes
$0
cost, MIT license
v1.5.0
current release

Why Now

Procurement gates every enterprise deal.

SOC 2-shaped questionnaires now show up before a startup's first enterprise contract, not after. Gitleaks, trufflehog, and semgrep each do one slice of that well — none produce the readiness score a buyer's security team actually asks for. DIRA is the one-command version of "can we pass this," priced at zero so a solo founder can run it before anyone else looks.


Roadmap

Shipped Seven scanners, SBOM, pre-commit hook, GitHub Action, PR diff gating, 208 tests green
Next Publish to PyPI (dira-scan) and npm — packaged, not yet listed
Next First paid Readiness Report / Deep Audit sale
Deliberately out Container/image scanning (points users to Trivy) — honest scope beats overclaiming

Founder

Yusuf Gadelrab

Valedictorian, Lynbrook High School, Class of 2024. BS Computer Science, San José State University, expected May 2028. Co-author, an ACM SIGCSE TS 2026 poster abstract on CS education with Dr. Ethel Tshukudu's CS Education Research Lab at SJSU. Solo builder and maintainer of every product on this page.