An auditor asked how code reaches production
Who writes it, who reviews it, who approves it and what is tested, and the answers lived in people's heads.
DevSecOps
Security checks that stop a bad change before it reaches production
We add security gates to your CI/CD pipeline and review what goes through it: keys left in code, risky code, outdated or wrongly licensed libraries, and who is allowed to merge. We work with GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps and the other major platforms.
- Security gates
- Merge review
- Libraries and licences
The pipeline refuses the change, so nobody has to remember to
Scanning tools that only report are easy to ignore. A security gate makes the result part of the release: if a check finds something that was agreed to block, the pipeline stops and the change cannot be merged until it is fixed.
Scans that reportA security gate
A key is found in the code
An entry in a report, and the change is merged anyway
The pipeline stops, and the change cannot be merged until the key is removed
A library has a critical vulnerability
A warning in a dashboard
The release is blocked, under rules agreed with you
Who can merge
Anyone with access
Only after a security review, by the approvers you name
The results
In a tool nobody opens
Kept with each change, so you can show what was checked
We bring our own security gate, which runs all three checks together, and connect it to your pipeline rather than asking you to change platforms.
How code is written, merged and released, then the gates
Review
How code is written, reviewed, merged and deployed: who has merge rights, whether review really happens, whether staging is used.
Gates
The three checks connected to your pipeline, with results kept as a record of each change.
Rules
What blocks and what warns, agreed with engineering and written down before anything is switched on.
Merge rights
Merging limited to named approvers, after review, with direct pushes to production closed off.
Ongoing review
Merge requests reviewed for security, problems sent back with comments, and slow pipelines tuned.
Every change checked before it goes live
ResultEvery change now passes security checks and review before it goes live.A team that shipped straight to productionRead the engagement
A product team maintained a codebase close to twenty years old, with developers working remotely and pushing changes directly to production, past a staging environment nobody used.
We connected security gates to their pipeline, removed developers' right to merge on their own, and started reviewing every merge request for security before approving it. Problems go back to the developer as comments, and the change is approved once they are fixed.