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Enterprise DevSecOps Services

Security Integrated Into Every Stage of Your Software Delivery Lifecycle

We embed automated security controls - SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning, secrets management, and policy-as-code - directly into your CI/CD pipelines. Vulnerabilities are detected when code is written, not weeks before release. Compliance evidence is generated automatically.

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The Challenge

Security Bolted On at the End Is Too Late and Too Expensive

Enterprises that rely on periodic penetration tests and late-stage security reviews consistently experience production vulnerabilities, regulatory findings, and costly remediation cycles. The average cost to fix a vulnerability discovered in production is 30 times higher than fixing it during development. Manual security reviews cannot scale to match modern deployment frequencies.

30x
higher remediation cost for vulnerabilities found in production versus development
83%
of enterprise applications have at least one high-severity vulnerability at any given time
$4.5M
average cost of a data breach involving application vulnerability exploitation
60%
of breaches involve known vulnerabilities that had available patches

Why QuickHire

Why Enterprises Choose QuickHire

01

Shift-Left Security by Design

We design DevSecOps pipelines that surface vulnerabilities during development - in IDE plugins and PR checks - before code reaches the CI pipeline, reducing noise and maximising developer adoption.

02

Multi-Layer Scanning Coverage

SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning, IaC scanning, and secrets detection provide overlapping coverage that catches vulnerability classes that any single tool would miss.

03

Policy-as-Code Enforcement

OPA Conftest and Kyverno policies enforce security standards at the pipeline and cluster admission level, preventing non-compliant infrastructure from reaching production.

04

Zero-Trust Secrets Management

HashiCorp Vault with OIDC-based short-lived credentials eliminates static secret exposure across CI/CD pipelines and application workloads.

05

Compliance Evidence Automation

Automated evidence packages covering SAST reports, image signing attestations, and policy evaluation logs reduce audit preparation from weeks to hours.

06

Developer Experience First

Security tooling is tuned to minimise false positives and block only genuinely exploitable findings, maintaining developer velocity while materially improving security posture.

Challenges

Common Enterprise Pain Points

01

Security Scanning False Positive Overload

Poorly tuned security scanners produce thousands of false positives that overwhelm development teams, destroy trust in security tooling, and cause teams to suppress findings rather than address them. Effective DevSecOps requires careful threshold configuration and a false positive management process.

02

Tool Sprawl and Finding Deduplication

Multiple security tools generate overlapping findings across different formats and severity scales. Without a centralised vulnerability management platform, findings are duplicated, lost, or untracked, making it impossible to measure programme effectiveness or demonstrate compliance.

03

Developer Resistance to Security Controls

Security controls that block deployments for low-risk findings create friction and adversarial relationships between security and development teams. Successful DevSecOps requires developer education, low-friction tooling, and carefully calibrated blocking thresholds.

04

Container and Supply Chain Security

Modern containerised applications use base images and open-source libraries with complex dependency trees. Without automated image scanning, SBOM generation, and supply chain attestation, enterprises cannot demonstrate control over the software artefacts they deploy to production.

05

Compliance Evidence Generation at Scale

Producing compliance evidence for SOC 2, PCI DSS, or ISO 27001 audits manually from multiple scanning tools is labour-intensive and error-prone. Automated evidence aggregation is essential for organisations undergoing multiple audits annually.

Our Approach

A Complete DevSecOps Programme From Pipeline to Production

We design, implement, and operate DevSecOps programmes that provide multi-layer security coverage across code, dependencies, containers, infrastructure, and runtime - all generating automated compliance evidence and managed through a centralised vulnerability platform.

01
Application Security Scanning
SAST (SonarQube, Checkmarx, Semgrep), DAST (OWASP ZAP), and SCA (Snyk, Dependency-Check) integrated as CI/CD pipeline gates with blocking thresholds tuned to balance security and velocity.
02
Container and Supply Chain Security
Trivy and Grype container scanning, Cosign image signing, SBOM generation, and Binary Authorization or Kyverno-based admission control enforcing provenance at deployment time.
03
Secrets Management and IaC Security
HashiCorp Vault with OIDC authentication, External Secrets Operator, Gitleaks scanning, and Checkov IaC scanning with blocking gates for critical misconfigurations.
04
Policy-as-Code and Runtime Security
OPA Conftest pipeline policies, Kyverno admission control, Falco runtime security, and Pod Security Standards enforcing least-privilege at the Kubernetes level.

Delivery Models

How We Deliver

DevSecOps Assessment

Pipeline security assessment covering current toolchain coverage, findings management maturity, and a prioritised DevSecOps implementation roadmap with effort estimates.

Timeline
2-3 weeks
Team Size
2 engineers
DevSecOps Implementation

End-to-end integration of SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning, secrets management, and policy-as-code into CI/CD pipelines with vulnerability management platform setup and developer training.

Timeline
6-16 weeks
Team Size
3-5 engineers
Managed DevSecOps

Ongoing scanner configuration management, policy library maintenance, monthly findings review, developer security coaching, and compliance evidence packaging.

Timeline
Ongoing
Team Size
2-4 engineers

Capabilities

Technical Capability Matrix

Application Security
SonarQube SASTCheckmarxSemgrepOWASP ZAP DASTSnyk / Dependency-Check SCAGitleaks secrets detection
Container Security
Trivy image scanningGrypeCosign image signingDocker ScoutBinary AuthorizationSBOM generation (CycloneDX)
Policy and Admission Control
Open Policy Agent (OPA)OPA ConftestKyvernoPod Security StandardsCheckov IaC scanningtfsec
Secrets and Identity
HashiCorp VaultExternal Secrets OperatorOIDC short-lived credentialsAWS Secrets ManagerAzure Key VaultSOPS
Runtime and Compliance
Falco runtime securityDefect DojoAqua SecuritySLSA frameworkSOC 2 evidence packagingPCI DSS pipeline controls

Engagement Models

How We Engage

Choose the model that fits your programme governance, budget cycle, and team structure.

01

Staff Augmentation

Engineers embed directly under your management.

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Dedicated Developers

Full-time team aligned to your product roadmap.

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03

Managed Teams

End-to-end delivery with SLA-backed outcomes.

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04

Engineering Pods

Autonomous cross-functional pods per domain.

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05

Offshore Dev Centre

Permanent engineering base in India. Full IP ownership.

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06

Build-Operate-Transfer

We build and run it. You take ownership on schedule.

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Our Process

From Discovery to Delivery

1

Pipeline Security Assessment

Days 1-5

Audit current CI/CD pipeline security coverage, vulnerability management process, and developer security tooling. Produce a maturity score and prioritised gap analysis.

2

Tool Selection and Architecture

Days 6-10

Select scanning tools, secrets management platform, and vulnerability management platform based on technology stack, compliance requirements, and budget.

3

SAST and SCA Integration

Weeks 2-4

Integrate static analysis and dependency scanning into all CI/CD pipelines with blocking thresholds, Defect Dojo ingestion, and Jira ticketing configured.

4

Container and Secrets Security

Weeks 4-8

Implement container scanning, image signing, Vault secrets management, and IaC scanning with policy-as-code gates across all pipelines.

5

DAST, Runtime, and Developer Training

Weeks 8-12

Deploy OWASP ZAP DAST, Falco runtime security, and policy-as-code admission control. Run developer security training workshops and establish security champion programme.

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Security & Compliance

Enterprise-Grade Security by Default

✓ISO 27001 Certified✓SOC 2 Type II Ready✓GDPR Compliant✓DPDP Act Ready✓NDA on Day 1✓MSA Available✓IP Assignment Clauses✓Escrow Options

Governance

Programme Governance

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Weekly Security Findings Review

Weekly review of new findings from all scanners, false positive triaging, and SLA compliance tracking for open vulnerabilities.

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Monthly DevSecOps Scorecard

Pipeline coverage percentage, MTTR by severity tier, vulnerability density, policy compliance rate, and security incident trend reported to engineering leadership.

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Quarterly Compliance Evidence Package

Aggregated compliance evidence from all scanning tools, formatted for SOC 2, PCI DSS, or ISO 27001 auditor review.

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Security Champion Programme

Fortnightly security champion meetings covering new vulnerability disclosures, tool updates, and emerging threat patterns relevant to the technology stack.

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Annual Threat Model Reviews

Annual structured threat modelling sessions for critical applications, updating existing threat models with new attack patterns and architectural changes.

Team Structure

Your Enterprise Team

DevSecOps engagements are delivered by security engineers with both application security and DevOps backgrounds - rare specialists who understand both the security domain and the engineering delivery context. Teams embed within your delivery organisation to drive adoption rather than operating as an external gate function.

✓Lead DevSecOps Architect
✓Application Security Engineer
✓Container Security Engineer
✓Secrets Management Engineer
✓Policy-as-Code Engineer
✓Vulnerability Management Analyst
✓Security Training Lead
✓DevSecOps Programme Manager

Project Lifecycle

From Kickoff to Production

01
2-3 weeks

Assessment

Pipeline security maturity score, gap analysis, tool selection recommendations, and prioritised implementation roadmap.

02
3-4 weeks

SAST and SCA

SAST tools integrated into all pipelines, SCA scanning with SBOM generation, Defect Dojo setup, and initial findings baseline.

03
3-5 weeks

Container and Secrets

Container scanning in all pipelines, image signing, Vault deployment, External Secrets Operator, and IaC scanning with policy gates.

04
3-4 weeks

DAST and Runtime

OWASP ZAP DAST integration, Kyverno admission control, Falco runtime security, and Pod Security Standards enforcement.

05
Ongoing

Developer Training and Operations

Security training programme, security champion programme, monthly scorecards, and quarterly compliance evidence packages.

Case Studies

Enterprise Outcomes

Financial Services

A payments processor needed to embed security controls into 120 microservice CI/CD pipelines to meet PCI DSS Requirement 6 without disrupting its weekly release cadence.

We implemented SonarQube with custom PCI DSS rule sets, Snyk SCA, Trivy container scanning, and Vault secrets management across all 120 pipelines in 10 weeks using a reusable GitHub Actions workflow library.

85%reduction in high-severity findings reaching production, with full PCI DSS Requirement 6 compliance achieved on schedule
Healthcare

A digital health platform needed to implement SAST and container scanning to support HIPAA compliance and SOC 2 Type II certification for its cloud-native application suite.

We deployed Checkmarx SAST, Grype container scanning with Cosign signing, and Defect Dojo for centralised findings management, generating automated SOC 2 evidence packages for the annual audit.

3 weeksto prepare SOC 2 evidence package versus 3 months previously, with zero high-severity audit findings
Technology

A fast-growing SaaS company faced a supply chain security incident when a popular npm package was compromised and automatically updated across 300 repositories.

We implemented Snyk SCA with automated SBOM generation, Renovate Bot for controlled dependency updates with SCA pre-checks, and an internal npm registry with curated package mirrors and provenance verification.

100%of repositories protected with SCA scanning and controlled dependency update workflows within 6 weeks

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Frequently Asked Questions

DevSecOps is the practice of integrating security controls, testing, and governance directly into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) rather than applying them at the end of a release cycle. Traditional application security relies on periodic penetration tests and security reviews that catch issues late, when they are expensive and time-consuming to fix. DevSecOps embeds automated security scanning into every CI/CD pipeline run - static analysis, dependency scanning, container image scanning, and dynamic testing - so vulnerabilities are detected when the code is written rather than weeks before a release. The shift-left model reduces both the cost of remediation and the time between vulnerability discovery and resolution.
We integrate SAST tools based on the technology stack and regulatory requirements of the engagement. For most enterprise environments, we implement SonarQube for multi-language static analysis with quality gate enforcement, Checkmarx SAST for deep dataflow analysis in highly regulated industries, and Semgrep for custom rule authoring aligned to organisation-specific security standards. GitHub Advanced Security or GitLab SAST are added for repositories on those platforms. All SAST tools are configured with scan thresholds that block pipeline promotion when high or critical severity findings are introduced, ensuring only reviewed and accepted risks enter production.
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) scans running applications for vulnerabilities such as injection flaws, authentication weaknesses, and sensitive data exposure. We integrate OWASP ZAP in baseline scan mode into CI/CD pipelines targeting deployed staging environments, with full active scan mode run on a scheduled basis against pre-production. For API-heavy applications, we configure ZAP with OpenAPI specifications to ensure comprehensive coverage of all endpoints. DAST findings are correlated with SAST results in a unified vulnerability management platform (Defect Dojo or a SIEM) to provide a complete picture of application security posture.
Software Composition Analysis identifies open-source dependencies in your applications and alerts when they contain known vulnerabilities (CVEs) or use restrictive licences that create legal risk. The Log4Shell vulnerability demonstrated how a single widely-used open-source library can expose thousands of enterprise applications simultaneously. We implement SCA using OWASP Dependency-Check, Snyk Open Source, or GitHub Dependabot, configured to break builds on high-severity CVEs with no available patch and to generate software bills of materials (SBOMs) in CycloneDX or SPDX format for supply chain transparency. Licence compliance policies are enforced to prevent GPL or AGPL components from entering proprietary software.
Container image scanning is implemented as a mandatory gate in the CI/CD pipeline immediately after the image build step. We use Trivy for its comprehensive vulnerability database coverage across OS packages and application dependencies, and Grype as a complementary scanner for cross-validation of critical findings. Images that fail vulnerability thresholds are blocked from being pushed to production registries. We also implement Cosign image signing so that Kubernetes admission controllers can verify image provenance at deployment time. Base image freshness is enforced through automated dependency update pull requests for Dockerfile base image versions.
Policy-as-code encodes security and compliance rules as machine-readable policies that are automatically evaluated against infrastructure definitions and Kubernetes configurations. We implement Open Policy Agent (OPA) with Conftest for Terraform plan and Kubernetes manifest validation in CI/CD pipelines, and Kyverno as an admission controller that enforces policies on resources being applied to the Kubernetes cluster. Policies cover required labels and annotations, container security contexts (non-root, read-only filesystem), prohibited capabilities, mandatory resource limits, and network policy requirements. Policy libraries are version-controlled alongside application code and reviewed through the same peer review process.
Secrets management is one of the highest-impact DevSecOps controls. We implement HashiCorp Vault as the central secrets management platform, with cloud-native secrets managers (AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager) for cloud-specific workloads. CI/CD pipelines authenticate to Vault using short-lived OIDC tokens rather than static credentials, eliminating the risk of long-lived secret leakage. The External Secrets Operator synchronises secrets from Vault into Kubernetes Secrets at runtime. We also implement Gitleaks or TruffleHog scanning in pre-commit hooks and CI pipelines to detect any secrets accidentally committed to source control.
Runtime security for containers uses Falco, an open-source runtime security tool that detects anomalous behaviour based on system call patterns. Falco rules are configured to alert on suspicious activities such as shell spawning in containers, unexpected network connections, sensitive file access, and privilege escalation attempts. Alerts are routed to the SIEM for correlation with other security events. For Kubernetes workloads, we also configure seccomp profiles, AppArmor or SELinux profiles, and Pod Security Standards (PSS) to constrain the system calls and capabilities available to containers at the OS level.
Our DevSecOps pipeline implementations generate evidence supporting SOC 2 Type II (CC6.6, CC6.7, CC8.1), ISO 27001 (A.12.6, A.14.2), PCI DSS (Requirement 6), and NIST CSFD (PR.IP-1, DE.CM-8). Evidence packages include SAST and DAST scan reports, SCA vulnerability management records, image signing attestations, and policy evaluation logs. For organisations undergoing certification audits, we produce evidence reports in auditor-friendly formats and support QSA or ISO certification body reviews. DevSecOps pipeline configurations are themselves version-controlled and subject to change management controls.
DevSecOps scanning generates large volumes of findings that must be triaged, deduplicated, and tracked to resolution. We implement Defect Dojo as a centralised vulnerability management platform that ingests findings from all scanners (SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning) and deduplicates across tools. Findings are automatically assigned to product teams based on repository ownership, prioritised by CVSS score and business context, and tracked to resolution with SLA-based escalation. Integration with Jira ensures security findings appear in the same backlog as feature work, preventing them from being deprioritised.
Supply chain security covers the integrity of code, dependencies, build systems, and deployment artefacts. We implement SLSA (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artefacts) framework controls: verified source control (signed commits), hermetic builds in isolated CI runners, provenance attestation using Sigstore and Cosign, and policy-based deployment gates that verify provenance before allowing images into production. SBOM generation in CycloneDX format is automated for every release, enabling rapid impact assessment when a new CVE affecting a common dependency is disclosed.
Balancing security rigour with developer velocity requires careful threshold configuration and developer experience design. We implement a tiered finding management approach: critical and high-severity findings with known exploits block the pipeline immediately; other high-severity findings create Jira tickets with a 5-day SLA and trigger notifications but do not block the build; medium and low-severity findings are aggregated into weekly security reports. False positive management is addressed through regular scan configuration reviews. Developer-facing tooling - IDE plugins for SonarQube and Snyk - surfaces findings during development before code reaches the CI pipeline.
Infrastructure as code security scanning uses Checkov, KICS, or tfsec to evaluate Terraform and CloudFormation templates for security misconfigurations before they are applied. Policies cover open security groups, unencrypted storage, public S3 buckets, missing logging, and IAM overpermissioning. Checkov is integrated into CI pipelines as a blocking gate, and results are published to the central vulnerability management platform. Drift detection between Terraform state and actual cloud configurations is monitored using Driftctl, alerting when out-of-band changes introduce security gaps.
Developer security training is integrated into the DevSecOps transformation through role-specific learning paths. Developers receive training on the OWASP Top 10, secure coding practices in their primary language, and how to interpret and remediate SAST findings using interactive exercises. Security champions are identified within each product team and receive additional training on threat modelling, secure design review, and security testing methodology. We run regular "bug bash" sessions where development and security teams review findings together, building shared understanding of vulnerability patterns specific to the codebase.
DevSecOps maturity is measured across five dimensions: pipeline coverage (percentage of repositories with security scanning), mean time to remediate (by severity tier), vulnerability density (findings per 1,000 lines of code), policy compliance rate (percentage of deployments passing all policy gates), and security incident rate (production security incidents attributable to code or configuration vulnerabilities). We produce a monthly DevSecOps scorecard covering these metrics and use a maturity model (Initial, Developing, Defined, Managed, Optimising) to track programme-level improvement over time.
A DevSecOps engagement begins with a pipeline security assessment covering current toolchain coverage, findings management process, and developer experience. This produces a prioritised roadmap for tool integration and process improvement. Implementation covers SAST, SCA, container scanning, secrets detection, DAST, and policy-as-code integration into CI/CD pipelines, followed by a vulnerability management platform setup and developer training programme. Ongoing managed DevSecOps services are available, covering scanner configuration management, policy library maintenance, monthly findings review, and developer security coaching.
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