Capability · DevSecOps
DevSecOps
Security built into delivery and operations — not bolted on at the end.
65%
of findings caught before formal testing
72%
fewer critical production findings
95%
automated coverage
7 days
remediation (from 18)
Measured on one engagement — anonymised client, verified with the owner.
Sound familiar?
Two or more of these means this page is for you.
- 1Security findings arrive late, in bulk, right before a deadline
- 2The security gate is manual — so under pressure it gets skipped
- 3Secrets live in config files and CI variables nobody rotates
- 4An audit is coming, and the evidence is screenshots
The transformation
How this discipline behaves when it's done right
- 1
Controls in the pipeline
SAST, dependency and image scanning running inline on every change — findings surface in the pull request, not the postmortem.
- 2
Identity & secrets
IAM least-privilege and managed secrets with rotation, so credentials stop living in code.
- 3
Risk-based gates
Release gates by severity with time-bound exceptions and ownership — security as delivery evidence, not a veto.
Artifacts
What you hold at the end
- Gate
Risk-based release gates with exception workflow
- Code
Pipeline security controls as code
- Policy
IAM least-privilege baseline
- Ledger
Findings ownership and remediation tracking
Evidence
What it did on a real system
Situation
A digital services organisation running most security testing late in the lifecycle — rework, deadline conflict and repeat findings.
Intervention
Security checks integrated into delivery, with risk-based release gates, ownership, time-bound exceptions and retesting.
Measured result
65% of findings caught before formal testing; critical findings reaching production down 72% across the engagement's release cycles; remediation time from 18 days to 7.
Verified with the engagement owner · client anonymised by agreement.
Read the full engagementStart here
Often begins inside a DevOps engagement or as a delivery-security review; the controls land in your pipeline, not in a separate security silo.
Delivery & ongoing
- IAM hardening and least privilege
- Vulnerability remediation
- SAST/DAST and VAPT scanning
- Secrets management
Delivered as code with handover — or run ongoing as managed operations.
Will this slow delivery down?
The measured effect was the opposite: findings surfaced earlier are cheaper and faster to fix — remediation fell from 18 days to 7 while release cadence held.
How we think about this problem
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Review your delivery controls
Bring your pipeline definition and your last penetration-test report. We'll show you which findings the pipeline should have caught.