Cloud and security · Delivery
DevSecOps for regulated industries
We build DevSecOps for regulated industries: delivery pipelines that test security on every change, scan code, dependencies, secrets, containers and infrastructure, produce signed artefacts and software bills of materials, enforce policy as code and collect the change evidence that auditors and supervisors expect. Teams ship faster and the controls get stronger, because the pipeline does the checking, and you own the pipelines and the code.
Checklist · Cloud and resilience
Cloud migration and resilience checklist for regulated firms
A checklist for regulated firms planning a cloud migration, a resilience programme or a security uplift: workload assessment, landing zone, data residency, resilience, security, delivery, third-party risk and evidence.- 01Eight areas that supervisors and auditors ask about, with testable checks.
- 02Resilience and recovery items that are easy to leave untested.
- 03Third-party, exit and data residency questions for the board.
- 04Seven questions to put to any vendor or engineering partner.
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What the system does, module by module.
- 01
Pipeline architecture
Standard, reusable pipelines for building, testing and deploying across languages and platforms, with a paved road that teams adopt because it is easier. - 02
Static and dynamic security testing
Static analysis, dynamic testing and, where it helps, interactive testing, with findings tuned to reduce noise and routed to the right team. - 03
Dependency and licence scanning
Software composition analysis for known vulnerabilities and licence risk, with policies on what may be used and automatic updates where safe. - 04
Secrets management
Detection of secrets in code and history, and replacement with managed secrets and short-lived credentials for pipelines and workloads. - 05
Infrastructure as code and container security
Scanning of infrastructure definitions and container images, hardened base images and admission controls in the cluster. - 06
Artefact integrity and SBOM
Signed builds, provenance records and a software bill of materials for every release, stored with the artefact. - 07
Policy as code and gates
Rules for approvals, security thresholds and deployment conditions written as code, applied consistently and changeable under review. - 08
Change evidence and separation of duties
Automatic collection of who changed what, what was tested, who approved and when it was deployed, with the separation of roles regulated firms require. - 09
Delivery metrics and improvement
Measures of deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate and recovery time, alongside security metrics, used to improve rather than to police.
Reference architecture.
Standards and interfaces
What we design against.
- NIST SSDF (SP 800-218)
- The Secure Software Development Framework's practices for preparing the organisation, protecting software, producing secure software and responding to vulnerabilities.
- SLSA
- Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts: a framework of levels for build integrity and provenance.
- OWASP SAMM and ASVS
- Maturity model and verification standard for software assurance and application security requirements.
- SBOM formats and signing
- CycloneDX and SPDX for bills of materials, and signing and verification standards such as Sigstore.
- Regulatory expectations on change management
- Supervisory requirements for tested, approved and recorded changes, and for segregation between development and operations.
- DORA delivery metrics
- Deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate and time to restore, used to measure delivery performance.
Data model
The core entities.
- Change
- Commit, author, reviewers, linked request, pipeline run and deployment.
- Pipeline run and stage
- Checks run, results, duration and the policy decisions made.
- Finding
- Tool, severity, location, owner, decision, fix and closure.
- Artefact and provenance
- Image or package, digest, signature, builder and SBOM reference.
- Policy and exception
- Rule, version, owner, scope, exceptions granted and expiry.
- Approval
- Approver, role, scope, time and any separation-of-duties checks.
- Delivery metric
- Metric, team, period and value.
When custom development is the right call.
Controls designed in, not added later.
Protected pipeline
The pipeline itself is hardened: least-privilege runners, isolated builds, protected branches and reviewed changes to pipeline definitions.Short-lived credentials
Pipelines and workloads authenticate with short-lived, scoped credentials and not long-lived secrets.Trusted artefacts only
Only signed artefacts from the trusted build are admitted to environments.Separation of duties
No single person can write, approve and release a change, enforced by the platform.Exceptions with expiry
Policy exceptions are approved, recorded and time-limited, and reported.
From discovery to a system you run.
- 01
Delivery and control review
We review how code reaches production today, the controls required by policy and regulators and where evidence is created by hand. - 02
Paved road design
The standard pipeline, the checks and policies and the evidence model are designed with engineering, security and risk. - 03
Build and pilot with two teams
The pipeline is built and adopted by a few teams, and noise and friction are tuned out. - 04
Adoption and policy gates
More teams move onto the paved road and gates are tightened progressively as findings are cleared. - 05
Measure and improve
Delivery and security metrics are reviewed, and the pipeline evolves with new threats and requirements.
Relevant work
Where to see our work.
Common questions.
- Does DevSecOps slow delivery down?
- Done well it speeds it up. Automated checks replace manual reviews and late surprises, the paved road removes repeated setup, and findings arrive when a developer can fix them cheaply.
- How does this satisfy change management requirements?
- The pipeline records who changed what, what was tested, who approved and when it was deployed, and enforces the separation of roles, so the evidence regulators ask for is a by-product of normal work.
- How do you deal with the noise from security scanners?
- By tuning rules to your stack, gating only on findings that matter, deduplicating across tools and giving developers clear fixes. Noisy gates are ignored, so quality of signal comes first.
- Can this work with legacy applications?
- Yes. Legacy applications can be brought onto the pipeline gradually, starting with build, scanning and artefact integrity, and later with automated testing and deployment.
- Who owns the pipelines and code?
- You do. The pipelines, the policies and the code stay yours.