DevSecOps & Security · Example engagement
Shift-left security for a regulated fintech release pipeline
Payments company · audit-driven · manual security reviews
Security reviews happened at the end of each release, findings arrived late and audit evidence was rebuilt by hand every quarter.
The challenge
Where things stood.
- Manual review gates delayed releases by days.
- Long-lived cloud keys stored in CI variables.
- SOC 2 evidence collected from screenshots and spreadsheets.
Our approach
How we would solve it.
- 01
Map the delivery path
Trace every route from commit to production and agree which risks each gate must catch.
- 02
Automate the gates
SAST in pull requests, dependency scanning with SBOMs, container image scanning and policy-as-code checks.
- 03
Remove standing secrets
Pipeline OIDC and short-lived workload identity replace stored cloud keys.
- 04
Make evidence continuous
Controls produce reviewable evidence automatically as part of every release.
Deliverables
What the client receives.
Services involved:
- Secure pipeline architecture and gate policy
- Scanner integration with an owned findings register
- OIDC-based deployment identity
- Control-to-evidence map for audit
Outcomes
What success looks like.
- Findings appear in the pull request, not after release
- No long-lived cloud credentials in CI
- Audit evidence is generated, not assembled
- Release cadence is set by the team, not by review queues
Example engagement: an illustrative scenario showing how DotConn approaches this kind of work. Client details and figures are not shown.
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