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Security shouldn’t slow you down, it should drive you forward. Our white paper, Your Guide to DevSecOps, explores how embedding security across your development lifecycle not only reduces vulnerabilities but empowers your team to move faster, meet compliance demands, and build with confidence.
Learn how to integrate security into every stage of your SDLC, from planning and coding to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Understand how DevSecOps helps meet evolving compliance requirements like PCI-DSS and GDPR while defending against real-world attack vectors.
See how TrollEye Security’s DevSecOps service uses a blend of automation, continuous testing, and constant support to help your team reduce vulnerabilities and speed up development.
Executive Overview
Data security has never mattered more, and it’s never been under more pressure. Even with big investments in tools and compliance, companies are still getting hit with breaches almost daily. For CIOs and CTOs, the stakes are high and rising.
How Confident Are You in the Security of Your Software?
Security isn’t just a checkbox, it’s a question of trust. Trust in your code. Trust in your pipeline. Trust that what you’re building won’t become tomorrow’s headline.
However, far too often, security is something teams scramble to add at the end of development. But that approach leaves blind spots, places where vulnerabilities slip through, unnoticed until it’s too late.
DevSecOps changes that. By weaving security into every phase of your software development lifecycle, it transforms security from a barrier into a built-in advantage. You gain visibility, control, and the confidence that your software is secure before it ever goes live.
With DevSecOps, you don’t just ship code, you ship code you can stand behind.
Confidence in security starts with how you build.
In this white paper, we’ll break down what DevSecOps really means, walk through the process step by step, and show how our solution helps security and development teams move faster, without compromising safety.
According to a Gartner survey, two-thirds (66%) of those who have implemented, or are in the process of implementing DevSecOps, say they have experienced fewer security incidents as a result.
The Effect of DevSecOps
Addresses the High Cost of Unmanaged Vulnerabilities
DevSecOps helps your organization shift security left, finding vulnerabilities earlier in the software development life cycle, where remediation is faster and cheaper.
A Powerful Process
DevSecOps represents the seamless integration of security measures into the software development process, ensuring that security considerations are embedded from the outset and throughout the entire development lifecycle.
This methodology is supported by the use of specialized tooling and automation, which underpins a continuous and iterative improvement approach to security practices within development and operational workflows.
DevSecOps is an expansion of the DevOps model, integrating security into the entire development process.
Step 1: Plan
Before any code is written, the DevSecOps process begins with intentional planning and proactive security design. This first step is about setting the foundation, defining risks, standards, and safeguards that will guide the entire development lifecycle.
Threat Modeling - Before a single line of code is written, you need to invest time in thoroughly understanding potential threats and vulnerabilities. Identify and evaluate potential risks to your application, ensuring that security is a fundamental consideration from the project's inception.
Code Standards - Implement code standards, which are the guiding principles and rules that govern how software is written. These standards encompass a set of best practices, conventions, and security measures that developers adhere to when crafting code.
Identity Management - Start verifying user identities and controlling access to resources within the development pipeline through identity management. IdM is a set of policies and technologies ensuring that the right individuals have the appropriate access to technology resources.
Development Pipeline Security - Build security into every stage of the CI/CD pipeline, from coding to deployment. Embed automated checks, policy enforcement, and vulnerability scanning directly into the delivery process, identifying and addressing threats without slowing down release cycles.
Step 2: Code
The “Code” phase of the DevSecOps process represents a pivotal stage where security is deeply integrated into the development workflow. This phase is divided into three critical components: Software Security, Code Signing, and Static Application Security Testing.
Software Security - Implement software security practices to ensure applications are built and maintained to resist threats throughout their lifecycle. Through practices like Software Composition Analysis, secure coding, configuration hardening, and ongoing patch management, security becomes part of every stage.
Code Signing Validation - Implement Code Signing Validation, which is a security measure that verifies the authenticity and integrity of software by confirming that the code has been digitally signed by a legitimate source.
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) - Conduct Static Application Security Testing (SAST) to reinforce code security right from the outset of the development process. SAST analyzes source code, bytecode, and binaries to detect security vulnerabilities early, enabling developers to fix issues during development rather than after deployment.
Step 3: Build
In the Build phase of the DevSecOps process, vulnerability scanning takes center stage. This critical step involves the systematic assessment of the software codebase and its dependencies to uncover any known security vulnerabilities, weaknesses, or compliance issues.
Dynamic Application Security Testing - Apply DAST to evaluate the security of your software while it’s running. By testing live applications, DAST helps uncover vulnerabilities that only appear during execution, such as authentication issues, input handling flaws, and runtime misconfigurations.
Step 4: Test
During the testing phase of DevSecOps you should employ some form of penetration testing to test the security of your software. We take the critical testing phase in the DevSecOps process to a new level with our Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) offering.
PTaaS - Leveraging up to weekly penetration testing, our PTaaS integrates seamlessly into the development lifecycle, ensuring that every application is scrutinized for vulnerabilities. This continuous approach elevates security testing to a proactive and preventive measure rather than a reactive one.
Step 5: Release
In the Release phase of the DevSecOps process, organizations move forward with the utmost confidence in their application’s compliance with stringent regulations such as PCI-DSS, GDPR, and CCPA.
As regulatory frameworks have changed, they increasingly demand that security is not a one-time effort, but a continuous discipline embedded throughout the software lifecycle. To meet these expectations, DevSecOps is essential. Modern standards introduce several critical shifts:
Security as a Continuous Process - Compliance is no longer satisfied by periodic audits alone, regulators now expect continuous monitoring, testing, and validation of security measures throughout development and operations.
Stricter Requirements - New guidelines call for active identification and remediation of vulnerabilities across the application lifecycle, including the use of automated tools, secure coding standards, and timely patching.
Increased Focus on Supply Chain Security - Organizations must account for the security posture of all third-party components and dependencies, requiring deeper insight into open-source libraries, vendor software, and their associated risks.
Specific Protections Against Exploitable Vulnerabilities - Regulations are pushing for concrete measures to defend against known exploit techniques, such as injection flaws, authentication bypasses, and insecure deserialization, ensuring resilience against modern attack methods.
Step 6: Deploy
In the deployment phase of the DevSecOps process, security focuses on safeguarding the final step before software reaches end-users. At this critical stage, validating the integrity of code becomes essential. One of the most effective ways to do this is through code signing validation, which acts as a digital seal of authenticity, confirming that the code being deployed is exactly as intended and free from tampering.
Code Signing Validation - Every build should be signed using cryptographic keys, verifying the origin and integrity of the software. This ensures that only authorized, untampered code is allowed into production environments.
Signature Verification at Deployment - Before any code is released, automated checks validate these digital signatures. If a signature is missing, invalid, or has been altered, deployment is halted, preventing compromised code from reaching end-users.
Step 7: Operate
In the operation phase of the DevSecOps process, security becomes an ongoing discipline. The focus is on real-time threat detection, proactive defense, and fast response. This is achieved through continuous monitoring and layered security controls that help identify vulnerabilities, suspicious activity, and potential breaches before they can cause harm.
Key solutions we recommend, each integrated into our offering, include:
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) - Provides visibility into endpoint activity, enabling rapid detection and response to malware, ransomware, and insider threats.
Web Application Firewall (WAF) - Filters and monitors HTTP traffic to block malicious requests and protect applications from common exploits.
Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) - Automates incident response workflows and integrates alerts across security tools for faster resolution.
Dark Web Analysis - Continuously monitors for leaked credentials, sensitive data, or mentions of your organization on dark web marketplaces and forums.
Purple Teaming - Combines offensive and defensive expertise to simulate attacks and improve detection and response capabilities in real time.
Open XDR - Unifies telemetry across disparate tools into a single detection and response layer for enhanced threat correlation and visibility.
Managed SIEM / SIEM - Aggregates logs and alerts across systems, using correlation rules and analytics to detect complex threats.
Attack Simulation - Mimics real-world attack techniques to test your defenses, uncover blind spots, and improve readiness.
Step 8: Monitor
In the final phase of the DevSecOps process, the focus shifts to ensuring that your organization is prepared to respond decisively and recover quickly in the face of a security incident. This phase is essential for maintaining operational continuity, minimizing damage, and reinforcing long-term resilience. Effective incident response and recovery don’t just restore systems, they strengthen your entire security posture over time.
At TrollEye Security, we combine advanced monitoring with hands-on expertise to help you respond faster and recover smarter. Our approach includes:
Managed SIEM (Purple Teaming) - Continuous, real-time monitoring powered by threat intelligence and proactive simulations to detect incidents as they unfold and test your organization’s ability to respond.
First Responders Team - Our specialized incident response team is immediately engaged when an event is detected, providing rapid containment, investigation, and remediation to limit impact and restore normal operations.
The TrollEye Security Advantage You Need
At TrollEye Security, we don’t just advise on DevSecOps, we help you implement it from start to finish. Our DevSecOps service is a fully managed solution that embeds security across your entire software development lifecycle, enabling your team to move fast without sacrificing safety.
End-to-End Implementation
We don’t stop at strategy. We take ownership of the full DevSecOps lifecycle, including secure design, threat modeling, pipeline integration, code analysis, and live incident response, so your team isn’t left managing it alone.
Integrated Security Platform
Every stage of the DevSecOps process is tracked and orchestrated through our centralized platform that brings visibility, automation, and coordination across development, security, and operations teams.
Purple Team-Driven Collaboration
Our unique purple teaming approach ensures that security is not siloed. Offensive (red team) and defensive (blue team) tactics are blended into a continuous feedback loop that improves both code quality and response readiness.
Ongoing Partnership & Support
You’ll have access to our security experts throughout the entire DevSecOps process. We don’t just deliver tools, we bring the team to help you implement, maintain, and adapt your security strategy over time.
Built for Continuous Change
We recognize that development never stands still. Our services are built to evolve with your environment, integrating seamlessly with your CI/CD pipeline and adapting to new technologies, architectures, and threats.
Next Steps
Isn’t it time to get ahead of your vulnerabilities with a partner who understands what’s at stake and has a proven, simple, fast, and cost-effective solution? Reach out today to schedule a thirty minute discovery call, so you can learn how DevSecOps can secure your development pipeline.
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