DevSecOps Advisory & Pipeline Security
Integrate security testing, governance, and assurance into modern CI/CD pipelines — without slowing engineering velocity. Aligned with NIST SP 800-218 (SSDF), OWASP SAMM, and BSIMM.
The Shift-Left Imperative
The cost of remediating a security defect grows by orders of magnitude as it moves from design, to build, to production. DevSecOps embeds security as a continuous, automated function of the engineering lifecycle — replacing periodic security reviews with always-on assurance integrated into the same pipelines engineers already use.
Engagement Scope
1. Programme Assessment
- Current-state maturity assessment against OWASP SAMM and BSIMM
- Pipeline architecture review — source, build, test, deploy, runtime
- Identification of toolchain gaps and integration friction
2. Tooling and Integration
- SAST — Static application security testing in pull-request gates
- DAST — Dynamic application security testing in staging environments
- SCA — Software composition analysis for open-source and third-party risk
- Container image scanning — registry-time and runtime
- IaC scanning — Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes manifests
- Secrets scanning — pre-commit, pre-push, and historical repository sweeps
- SBOM generation — CycloneDX / SPDX, aligned with SP 800-218
3. Governance & Threat Modelling
- Threat modelling workshops (STRIDE, PASTA, LINDDUN)
- Security champion programmes and developer enablement
- Vulnerability triage and SLA design
- Policy-as-code (OPA, Conftest) for pipeline gating
4. Compliance Mapping
DevSecOps controls mapped to ISO/IEC 27001 Annex A (8.25–8.34), NIST SP 800-218, PCI DSS v4.0.1 (Requirement 6), DORA, and CMMC.
Outcomes
- Reproducible, auditable evidence of security testing at every release
- Measurable reduction in time-to-remediate critical vulnerabilities
- Production-ready Software Bills of Materials (SBOM) on every build
- Pipeline-gated controls that prevent regression of fixed vulnerabilities