Secure Engineering
DevSecOps
We help teams select controls, automate useful checks and make security feedback part of everyday delivery.
- Controls selected for your delivery workflow
- Useful security checks automated
- Security feedback built into everyday delivery
The challenge
Security feedback arrives too late
Security feedback arrives too late when it is separate from software delivery. DevSecOps places proportionate checks, ownership and remediation guidance inside the workflow teams already use to build and release software.
Security as part of delivery
DevSecOps is an operating approach, not a single product. It connects secure design, code and dependency checks, delivery controls and runtime learning to the people responsible for software.
Cyberus reviews the current lifecycle and selects improvements that fit the team’s technology and release model. Automation is used where it provides timely, understandable feedback; human review remains important for design and business logic.
Security inside the release path
- Design assumption. A risky choice made early, such as weak trust boundaries, shapes everything built on top of it.
- Code change. Unreviewed code or dependencies enter the repository without anyone checking them.
- Pipeline permission. Broad build identities and approvals can carry a bad change toward deployment.
- Production release. The change reaches live systems, where fixing it costs more and reaches more people.
Why it matters
- Business risk: Security checks added late slow releases and miss design flaws, so teams either delay delivery or ship known risk.
- Decision it supports: Teams can decide which checks, gates and approvals fit each application, and who owns triage and exceptions.
- What you receive: You receive prioritized control recommendations, configured workflows, triage guidance and a maturity roadmap, within the agreed scope.
Practical controls across the lifecycle
Threat-informed design
Introduce lightweight security questions and threat review before expensive implementation decisions.
- Why it matters
- Fixing a design flaw after implementation is far more expensive than asking the right question first.
- Supports
- Earlier, cheaper security decisions
Code and dependency checks
Place appropriate analysis in developer or integration workflows with clear triage ownership.
- Why it matters
- Checks that nobody triages create noise, so placement and ownership decide whether findings are acted on.
- Supports
- Actionable feedback inside developer workflow
Secrets and artifact controls and pipeline permissions
Review handling of credentials, build outputs, package sources and software provenance evidence. Assess identities, approvals, branch protections and separation around sensitive deployment actions.
- Why it matters
- Leaked credentials or tampered packages can compromise every system the build touches. A pipeline with broad rights becomes an attractive route to production for anyone who gains access.
- Supports
- Evidence of how secrets and build outputs are handled; confidence in who can deploy and approve changes
Release assurance
Define risk-based gates, exception handling and evidence needed before production release.
- Why it matters
- Strict gates for everything stall delivery, while none leave risk unmanaged, so risk should set the bar.
- Supports
- Release decisions that match application risk
Feedback metrics
Track useful measures such as age, recurrence and ownership instead of raw finding volume alone.
- Why it matters
- Counting findings rewards volume, whereas age and recurrence show whether teams are improving.
- Supports
- Measures leaders can use to steer investment
How DevSecOps improvement runs
Why choose Cyberus for DevSecOps
Connect each security signal to the developer who can resolve it.
DevSecOps
Frequently asked questions
Does DevSecOps mean blocking every release with a security finding?
No. Gates should be risk based, predictable and supported by an exception process. Many findings are better handled as visible, owned work.
Can Cyberus work with our current pipeline?
Yes. The engagement begins with the existing workflow and selects compatible controls rather than assuming a specific toolchain.
What should be automated?
Automate repeatable checks that provide timely, actionable feedback. Design judgment, business logic and complex validation still benefit from human review.
Build security into delivery
Share your development workflow and where security feedback should fit.
Team certifications
Individual qualifications held by members of the Cyberus team. They are not company accreditations, and not every consultant on an engagement holds every badge.
OSCP
Hands-on penetration testing skills, from enumeration to exploitation and privilege escalation.
OSWE
Web application security skills, including source code review and exploiting complex web vulnerabilities.
OSED
Exploit development skills, including analysing Windows software and writing custom exploits.
OSCP+
Hands-on penetration testing skills, from enumeration to exploitation and privilege escalation.
CRTA
Red team analysis skills, including adversary tactics and techniques.
eWPT
Web application penetration testing skills, from assessment method to exploiting common web flaws.
eWPTX
Advanced web application penetration testing skills, including complex attack techniques.
eMAPT
Mobile application penetration testing skills for Android and iOS applications.
BTL1
Defensive security skills across security operations, phishing analysis, forensics and incident response.
eCIR
Incident response skills, including investigating, containing and analysing security incidents.
CRTE
Red teaming skills focused on Windows environments and the tradecraft used against them.
CCT
EC-Council's Certified Cybersecurity Technician (CCT) validates foundational security, network, and defense skills.
Security+
CompTIA Security+ validates core skills in baseline cybersecurity, risk management, and threats.