DevSecOps: security built into CI/CD
Automated security checks right in the pipeline — vulnerabilities never reach production.
Challenge. Stop treating security as an afterthought: keep vulnerable code and CVE-ridden dependencies out of production, and bring infrastructure up to baseline standards.
Approach. Security checks were added to the existing CI/CD in report-first, block-later mode so nothing breaks mid-flight, while the infrastructure was hardened in parallel.
Solution. SAST and SCA in the pipeline (Semgrep, Trivy), image scanning before deploy, server hardening to CIS, secret management (Vault/SOPS) with keys purged from git history, centralized logging, and an incident response plan.
Result. Up to 90% of vulnerabilities are caught at build time, 100% of deploys pass the checks, secrets are out of the code, and the infrastructure is ready for ISO 27001 / SOC 2 audits.