Service 02
DevSecOps & Pipeline Security
Your CI/CD pipeline has credentials to production, pulls code from hundreds of third parties, and is usually the least-monitored system you run. Attackers know this. We harden the pipeline itself — secrets handling, supply-chain controls, runner isolation, and deployment gates — so a compromised build step cannot become a compromised environment.
Start the ConversationThe Problem
The Pipeline Is Production Infrastructure. Most Teams Do Not Treat It That Way.
A build system holds deploy keys, cloud credentials, and signing material, and it executes code from every dependency in your tree. Yet pipeline definitions often sit outside code review, secrets live in plaintext environment variables, third-party actions are pinned to a mutable tag, and any engineer can trigger a production deploy. Each of these is an OWASP CI/CD Top 10 risk, and together they form a path from a pull request to your production environment.
We review the pipeline as an attack surface in its own right: who can modify a workflow, what a compromised dependency reaches, whether a build artifact can be traced to the commit that produced it, and what a leaked runner token unlocks. Then we fix the findings and leave the controls running.
How We Work
Security Checks That Run on Every Commit, Not Once a Quarter
A quarterly pen test finds what existed a quarter ago. We move the controls left, into the pipeline: secret scanning before a commit lands, dependency and container scanning on every build, infrastructure-as-code policy checks before apply, and signed artifacts with a verifiable provenance chain. Findings surface where engineers already work, not in a PDF they receive weeks later.
We tune the gates so they are enforceable rather than ignorable. A control that fires on every build and blocks nothing trains your team to click through it. We set thresholds that fail builds on what genuinely matters, route the rest to a backlog with an owner, and keep the signal high enough that developers trust it.
Governance
Separation of Duties That Survives an Audit
Deployment velocity and audit defensibility are usually treated as opposites. They are not — the same controls deliver both. Approval gates on production deploys, immutable build logs, and artifact provenance are what an auditor wants to see and what stops a bad change from reaching customers. We wire them once and they serve both purposes.
The engineer who writes a deployment playbook should not be the one who approves it into production. We implement that separation in the pipeline itself rather than in a policy document nobody enforces, and map the resulting controls to the frameworks you already report against — SOC 2, CIS Controls v8, and NIST.
Ready to treat your pipeline like production?
We work in the CI/CD platform you already run — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or ArgoCD.
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