(DevSecOps)

DevSecOps: security checks that run on every pull request

Security findings are cheapest while the author still remembers the code. DevSecOps means putting the checks inside the pipeline, tuned hard enough that developers trust a red build instead of routing around it.

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DevSecOps

(Why shift left is not a slogan)

A flaw caught in review is a fifteen-minute fix. The same flaw caught in an annual penetration test is a ticket, a sprint, a regression risk and an awkward email to a customer. Nothing about the code changed — only how far it travelled before anyone looked at it.

The hard part is not installing scanners. It is deciding what fails a build, what merely warns, and who owns the queue of findings that nobody has time for. Those three answers decide whether the tooling helps or quietly gets ignored.

(What we deliver)

DevSecOps services we implement

Rolled out one control at a time, each in warning mode first so the team sees the noise before anything starts blocking merges.

  1. Static analysis with Semgrep or CodeQL on changed files, with rules tuned to your stack rather than a vendor default. Dynamic scanning with OWASP ZAP against a deployed review environment, so runtime issues surface before the branch merges.

  2. Software composition analysis across your lockfiles, with an agreed policy: what severity blocks a release, what gets a grace period, which licences your legal team will not accept. Automated update pull requests, grouped and tested, so patching is routine rather than an annual event.

  3. Secrets out of repositories and environment files, into Vault, AWS Secrets Manager or Azure Key Vault, with short-lived credentials and rotation that has been tested. Pre-commit and pipeline scanning catch new leaks, and anything already in git history gets rotated on the assumption it is public.

  4. A CycloneDX or SPDX bill of materials produced at build time and stored with the artefact, so when the next widely-used library turns out to be vulnerable you can answer "are we affected" in minutes. Build provenance and signed images where the risk warrants it.

  5. Guardrails enforced automatically: Checkov or tfsec on Terraform plans, OPA or Conftest on Kubernetes manifests, branch protection and required reviews in the repository itself. A public storage bucket or a container running as root fails the check rather than the audit.

  6. Change approvals, scan results, access reviews and deployment records collected automatically and kept where an auditor can find them. Working to GDPR and to the control expectations behind ISO 27001 and SOC 2 — as your practice and your evidence, with the certification coming from your auditor.

(Tooling we wire in)

(How we work)

How the work runs

Every engagement is scoped in phases, priced per phase, and reviewed with you at the end of each one.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    We map the problem, the systems around it and what a good outcome looks like, then scope the work in phases you can stop after.

  2. 02

    Design

    Flows, architecture and interfaces agreed before anyone writes production code.

  3. 03

    Build

    Two-week increments, a working environment you can open, and a demo at the end of each one.

  4. 04

    Testing

    Functional, performance, security and accessibility checks run through the build, not bolted on at the end.

  5. 05

    Launch

    Deployment, monitoring, documentation and the handover your team needs to run it.

  6. 06

    Support

    Fixes, updates and the next set of features, at an agreed monthly capacity.

(Why Team of Keys)

How we stop scanning from becoming noise

The failure mode of DevSecOps is a dashboard with four thousand findings that everyone has learned to ignore. Avoiding that is the whole job.

  1. 01

    Tuned before it blocks

    Every control runs in warning mode first. Rules get tuned, false positives suppressed with a written reason, and only then does the check start failing builds. Trust is earned before enforcement.

  2. 02

    Findings routed to an owner

    A finding with no owner is a finding that ages. Results land as pull-request comments on the change that caused them, and the backlog has names and dates against it.

  3. 03

    Speed treated as a requirement

    Scans run in parallel, on changed files, with caching. If the security stage adds more than a couple of minutes to a pull request, that is our problem to solve, not yours to tolerate.

  4. 04

    No certification theatre

    The studio holds no ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification and does not audit anyone. What we build is the control set and the evidence trail; your assessor makes the judgement.

  5. 05

    Developers taught, not policed

    A short session on the classes of finding your codebase keeps producing does more than a blocking rule. The aim is fewer findings raised, not a better process for handling them.

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(FAQ)

Questions, answered

DevOps is about getting changes to production reliably and often. DevSecOps adds security controls to that same pipeline — scanning, secrets handling, dependency policy, provenance — so nothing waits for a separate review gate. In practice it is the same pipeline and frequently the same engineers, with security checks as first-class steps.

It should add one to three minutes to a pull request, not twenty. That comes from scanning changed files rather than the whole repository, running stages in parallel, caching dependency databases and keeping the heavier dynamic scans on a nightly schedule. If a check cannot be made fast, it belongs outside the merge path.

By tuning rather than tolerating. Rulesets are narrowed to your languages and frameworks, noisy rules are turned off outright, and individual suppressions require a comment explaining why. Suppressions are reviewed periodically. A queue with a hundred ignored findings is worse than no scanning, because it looks like coverage.

We can build and evidence the technical controls an assessor will look for: access management, change approval, vulnerability handling, logging, backups and supplier review. The certificate comes from an accredited auditor, not from us, and Team of Keys holds no such certification itself. Expect us to prepare you, not to certify you.

Four to eight weeks for a typical estate. Dependency scanning and secret detection go in during week one, static analysis follows once rules are tuned, and policy as code and SBOM generation come after that. Enforcement is switched on control by control, at a pace your team agrees to.

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(Next step)

Put the checks where the code is written

Send us your pipeline, your stack and whatever audit or customer requirement is driving this. You get a rollout plan, control by control, with a price per phase.

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