Shift left, in practice
Findings surface on the change that introduced them.
Security controls inside the pipeline, not a separate exercise before go-live.
Security reviews that happen after the code is written are a gate, not a practice. They produce a queue, a late fix and a schedule that slips — and the same defect class returns in the next release.
Embedding controls in the pipeline changes the economics. Secrets come from a vault, dependencies and containers are scanned on every build, artefacts are signed, and the deployment record is immutable. A failing check stops a build in minutes instead of a review in weeks.
Findings surface on the change that introduced them.
Managed through a vault with rotation and audit.
Signed artefacts with a verifiable chain to source.
An immutable record of what was scanned, approved and deployed.
| Area | What we deliver |
|---|---|
| Static analysis | SAST in the pipeline with a tuned rule set and an agreed exception process |
| Dynamic analysis | DAST against a running environment in a test stage |
| Dependency and supply chain | SCA, container scanning, provenance and SBOM |
| Secret management | Vault integration, rotation, least privilege and audit |
| Artefact integrity | Signing, verification and admission control on delivery |
| Policy and evidence | Policy as code and immutable deployment records |
The situations this is most often specified for, based on what we are asked to quote most often.
It changes the shape of the work, not the amount. Most pipelines get faster overall because failures are caught on the change that caused them instead of in a pre-release review.
We work with them. We build the pipeline integration, they set the policy and the risk appetite, and the exception process is theirs. The goal is for both functions to stop duplicating effort.
We run application security testing as part of the pipeline, and can coordinate independent third-party penetration testing including the scoping and retest cycle.



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