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DevSecOps & Secure Development
— pipelines, platforms and agents

Security built into how you ship — secure SDLC, supply-chain integrity, platform guardrails and safe AI-assisted coding — so speed and security stop being a trade-off.

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Topics we cover
DevSecOpsSecure SDLCNIST SSDFSoftware supply chain securitySLSASBOMSigstore / signingSAST / DAST / SCASecrets managementIaC securityPolicy-as-code (OPA)Container securityApplication Security Posture Management (ASPM)AI-assisted coding securitySecure AI agentsPlatform engineeringGolden paths
Status quo · late 2026

What has changed — and why it matters now

01

AI writes a lot of the code

Copilots and coding agents ship more code, faster — and more vulnerabilities with it. Guardrails, review policies and scanning tuned for AI-generated code are now table stakes.

02

Supply chain is regulated

EU Cyber Resilience Act, NIST SSDF and customer contracts demand SBOMs, signed artefacts and provenance (SLSA). "We use open source" needs evidence.

03

ASPM replaced tool sprawl

Findings from SAST, SCA, DAST, IaC and cloud correlate into one risk view per application, owner and fix path.

How we approach it

Our method for DevSecOps & Secure Development

01AssessSDLC maturity (SSDF, OWASP SAMM), pipeline threat model, current tooling and noise.
02Design guardrailsGolden paths, policy-as-code, secrets strategy, signing and provenance, branch protection.
03IntegrateSAST/SCA/DAST/IaC in CI with quality gates that developers accept; ASPM for correlation.
04Secure AI developmentPrompt and tool security for agents, evaluation gates, MCP server hardening, model registry controls.
05EnableSecurity champions, developer training, dashboards and SLAs.
In depth

Controls across the pipeline

Plan

Threat modelling, security requirements, abuse cases.

Code

Pre-commit hooks, secrets scanning, AI-coding policies.

Build

SAST, SCA, SBOM generation, signed artefacts, reproducible builds.

Deploy

IaC scanning, admission control, policy-as-code, environment segregation.

Run

Runtime protection, DAST, drift detection, feedback to backlog.

What you get

Deliverables

Secure CI/CDSAST / DASTSecure AI agentsContainer securitySecrets managementDeveloper enablement
Technology-agnostic

Platforms we work across

We design for the outcome first and choose the platform second — across Microsoft, AWS and Google Cloud, and every major AI provider.

GitHub Advanced SecurityAzure DevOpsGitLabAWS CodePipelineGoogle Cloud BuildSnykSigstoreHashiCorp VaultOPA / Kyverno
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