# Welcome Zirkul is a platform designed for DevSecOps (application security scanning automation) and Application Security program management. **AppSec Management** Zirkul can be used for: * Track all your managed assets in a single place, from Web Apps, Mobile Apps, Servers, IP ranges or anything you want to track security testing for. * Manage all security testing activities in a single place, from pentest, DAST, SAST, SCA, Network Scans, etc. It doesn't matter if you're scanning with third parties or internally. * Vulnerability Management designed for Agile teams, this can be used for assigning issues, request retest, raise exceptions, challenge false positives, ask questions, add comments, get remediation guidance, attach evidence and more. * Groups for access segmentation. * Fully granular user roles and permissions. * Generate metrics exporting data in excel format so you can answer questions such as: * How many pentest have been completed this year? * How many open vulnerabilities do we have, broken down by country or business unit? * Is App X in compliance with no Critical or High open vulnerabilities? * Which Apps have not completed a SAST or DAST scan this year? **DevSecOps / CICD** Zirkul is designed to be friendly with all CICD processes with functionalities available for integrating in many ways. You can launch scans from CICD pipelines by: * Making a webhook call. * Using our portable agent for scanning within the internal network. * Requesting scans to be executed in the Cloud. In the next sections you will find examples of running scans from some popular platforms. If you have any questions, please contact --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.zirkul.com/welcome.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.