A Vulnerability Found at Commit
Costs Nothing Compared to One in Production.
Most teams find security issues after deployment — during a pen test, an audit, or an incident. We embed security into the pipeline itself: SAST, DAST, container scanning, secrets detection, and compliance checks running automatically on every commit, so vulnerabilities surface when they’re cheapest to fix.
No retainers · NDA before any technical discussion · 30-minute call, no pitch deck
Security at the end of the pipeline isn’t security. It’s a delay.
The traditional model — build the thing, deploy it, then run security checks — doesn’t work at CI/CD speed. By the time a vulnerability is found in a pen test, it’s been running in production for weeks. The fix requires rework, re-review, and re-deployment. In a regulated environment it requires documentation. In a FinTech or healthcare context it may require disclosure.
DevSecOps moves security to where code is being written, not where it’s being reviewed after the fact. Automated checks in the pipeline catch the same classes of vulnerability a pen tester would find, but they catch them at commit time — before anyone has deployed anything and before the fix requires coordination across four teams.
What changes after a DevSecOps integration
Six security capabilities, all running in your pipeline automatically
DevSecOps Integration for a Global FinTech CI/CD Pipeline
A global FinTech company was running Jenkins and GitHub Actions pipelines that shipped code fast but had no automated security checks in the pipeline itself. Security reviews happened manually before major releases — creating bottlenecks and pressure to approve rather than review. Dependency vulnerabilities, container misconfigurations, and secrets in version control were being discovered in pen tests rather than during development. We embedded SAST, DAST, dependency analysis, secrets scanning, and Kubernetes hardening directly into both pipelines — with automated risk reporting and remediation workflows that give engineers clear, actionable information rather than a raw vulnerability list. 85% of vulnerabilities are now caught before anything reaches production.
What the client said
Security used to be the thing that slowed us down before a release. Now it runs in the background on every commit and our engineers get clear, specific findings they can actually act on — not a report they hand to someone else to interpret. Stonetusker made security part of how we ship, not something separate from it.
Head of Engineering Global FinTech Company
How we embed security into a pipeline that’s already running
We assess your current pipeline and security posture honestly
A review of your CI/CD pipeline, your current security checks (if any), your secrets management approach, your container and cloud configuration, and your compliance requirements. The output is a clear picture of where the highest-risk gaps are and what we’d address first. We sign an NDA before this starts. Your pipeline architecture, code, and security posture stay completely confidential.
We integrate security tools in order of risk, not all at once
Security tools are added to your pipeline incrementally — starting with the checks that catch the highest-severity classes of vulnerability for your specific stack. Nothing is enabled in blocking mode until it’s been tuned to minimise false positives. Engineers start seeing useful findings before the integration is complete, not after a six-week implementation project.
We apply policies and guardrails that enforce, not just report
Compliance-as-code policies are configured against your actual regulatory requirements — SOC2 controls, ISO 27001 clauses, or GDPR technical measures — and set to block builds that violate them. The pipeline becomes the enforcement mechanism, not a document reviewed quarterly. Secrets management, RBAC, and least-privilege controls are applied to pipeline service accounts at the same stage.
We hand over a system your team can operate, tune, and extend
The security integration is documented: what each tool checks, why each threshold was set where it was, how to suppress a false positive correctly, and how to add checks for new services or new frameworks. Post-engagement, your security posture improves as the codebase evolves rather than drifting back to the baseline. Support is available without a retainer if new compliance requirements emerge.
Security running in your pipeline within 2 to 3 weeks.
A paid pilot that integrates SAST, DAST, or container scanning into your actual pipeline — not a demo environment. You see real findings from your real codebase before committing to the full engagement.
Pilot guarantee
If the pilot doesn’t produce working security checks running in your actual pipeline, you don’t pay for the full engagement.
The pilot delivers automated security scanning in your real pipeline, producing findings from your real codebase. If it doesn’t, you don’t pay for the next phase. That’s written into the agreement before work starts.
Questions about security in the pipeline
The most common version of this concern is about DAST, which can be slow if it’s not configured to run against the right scope. We run scans in parallel stages where pipeline structure allows so total pipeline time increases less than people expect — typically 2 to 4 minutes for SAST on a mid-size codebase, and container scans that run concurrently with build steps add near-zero wall-clock time. The engineer experience concern is real: security findings have to be specific and actionable, not a wall of warnings. We tune noise out during the pilot specifically to avoid alert fatigue. Teams consistently report that precise, useful findings are less frustrating than a manual security review they were waiting on anyway.
Alongside — and it makes their work more effective. DevSecOps automation catches the classes of vulnerability that are well-defined enough to be scanned for: known CVEs in dependencies, OWASP Top 10 issues in code, hardcoded secrets, misconfigurations in container images and cloud config. Pen testers find what automated scanning can’t: logic flaws, authentication bypass through unusual request sequences, and business-logic vulnerabilities that require a human to understand the application. When automated scanning is handling the mechanical work, your security team can focus their time on higher-value manual testing. Most security teams we work with see DevSecOps as reducing the volume of low-hanging-fruit findings they’re asked to document, not as a threat to their role.
The overhead in most SOC2 programmes comes from evidence gathering — pulling logs, screenshots, and records from multiple systems to prove controls were operating during the audit period. Compliance-as-code addresses this directly: every policy check that runs in the pipeline produces a log entry that becomes part of the audit trail automatically. Access controls, change management, vulnerability management, and encryption in transit can all be enforced and evidenced at the pipeline level without someone compiling a spreadsheet before each audit. We map the compliance-as-code policy set to your specific SOC2 control requirements during the engagement — the policies enforce the controls and the evidence is generated as a by-product of normal development activity.
The next commit going out should be scanned before it deploys.
30 minutes. We arrive having looked at your public pipeline setup and will tell you exactly what security gaps we’d close first and what the pilot would produce for your specific stack.
No retainers · No lock-in · NDA signed before we discuss your pipeline or codebase
30-minute call · No pitch deck · We come prepared for your specific pipeline and compliance requirements
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