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DevOps & reliability

DevSecOps

Move security into the pipeline so vulnerabilities are caught at the pull request, not at the annual audit.

  • Project or retained programme
  • From USD 26,000
  • Updated

The short answer

DevSecOps embeds security testing into the software delivery pipeline. LDelight adds SAST, dependency scanning, container scanning, secret detection and infrastructure-as-code policy checks to CI/CD, so issues surface at code review — where they cost a fraction of what they cost in production.

Key takeaways

  • Scanning at the pull request, with results in the review
  • Policy-as-code blocks non-compliant infrastructure before it deploys
  • SBOM generated on every build for supply-chain visibility
  • Deliberately tuned to avoid alert fatigue — noise gets ignored
DevSecOps

Security that arrives once a year as a PDF changes very little. Security that appears as a comment on a pull request, while the developer still has the context loaded, changes behaviour.

What goes into the pipeline

  • SAST — static analysis on changed code only, so review stays fast
  • SCA — dependency scanning with reachability analysis, so you fix what is actually exploitable
  • Secret detection — pre-commit hooks plus history scanning
  • Container scanning — base image and layer analysis, with a policy on what may reach a registry
  • IaC scanning — Terraform and Kubernetes manifests checked against policy before apply
  • SBOM — a software bill of materials per build, retained for supply-chain response

Tuning matters more than tooling

An unfiltered scanner produces thousands of findings, most of them irrelevant, and teams learn to ignore all of it within a fortnight. We tune to a signal-to-noise ratio developers will tolerate, then tighten gradually. A gate people respect is worth more than a gate that catches everything.

What you get out of it

  • Vulnerabilities fixed at review rather than at audit
  • Supply-chain exposure answerable in minutes
  • Compliance evidence produced by the pipeline itself
  • Security that developers do not route around

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What's included

  • Threat model of the delivery pipeline
  • SAST, SCA, secret and container scanning integration
  • Policy-as-code for Terraform and Kubernetes
  • SBOM generation and retention
  • Signed builds and artefact provenance
  • Security gates with agreed severity thresholds
  • Developer security training
  • Vulnerability triage and response runbook

Technology we use

  • Semgrep
  • Trivy
  • Snyk
  • Checkov
  • tfsec
  • OPA/Gatekeeper
  • Sigstore/Cosign
  • Syft
  • Dependabot
  • GitHub Advanced Security

FAQs about DevSecOps

Properly configured, scanning adds 2–4 minutes to a build. We scan changed code rather than the whole repository on every run, cache aggressively, and move the slowest checks to a nightly job. If a gate makes the pipeline painful, developers will find a way around it — which is worse than not having it.

We start with a high severity threshold and only the rules with a low false-positive rate, then tighten over months. Reachability analysis on dependencies removes most of the noise, because a vulnerable package that is never called is not an emergency.

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