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DevSecOps Gap Analysis

A DevSecOps gap analysis establishes where security sits in your delivery pipeline today and what is missing between commit and production. We review automation coverage, policy enforcement, secrets handling, and the configuration of the toolchain itself, then set out the gaps in the order worth closing, scoped to the stack you run rather than to a reference architecture.

Application Security Resilience — practice area

What the engagement covers

Maturity assessment of the build and release pipeline, from commit to production.

  • Source control and code review

    Branch protection, review requirements, and the controls that decide what can reach a protected branch and who is able to change them.

  • Automated security testing coverage

    Which checks run, where they run in the pipeline, what they cover, and what happens to a build when one of them fails.

  • Secrets management

    How credentials reach builds and running services, where they are stored, how they rotate, and what a compromised pipeline would expose.

  • Build and artefact integrity

    The path from source to deployed artefact, covering build isolation, dependency resolution, artefact provenance, and what prevents an unreviewed change from reaching production.

  • Toolchain and runner configuration

    The security posture of the pipeline platform itself, including runner isolation, the permissions granted to jobs, and the access held by third-party actions or plugins.

How we do it

Scope is agreed in advance and documented in a statement of work before any work begins.

  1. 01

    Pipeline walkthrough

    We review the delivery pipeline with the teams that own it, tracing a change from commit to production and recording the controls it passes through.

  2. 02

    Configuration and coverage review

    Pipeline definitions, policy configuration, and tool settings are reviewed directly, so the assessment reflects what the pipeline enforces rather than what the process documents describe.

  3. 03

    Gap analysis and roadmap

    Each gap is rated by the risk it carries and the effort to close it, then sequenced into a roadmap that fits your existing toolchain.

What you receive

Written so findings can be assigned directly to the teams that will act on them.

  • Maturity assessment

    Each area of the pipeline rated against the controls expected at its stage, with the evidence behind every rating.

  • Gap register

    Every gap found, what it allows, and the specific change that closes it, written against the tools you already run.

  • Sequenced roadmap

    The gaps ordered into a plan, so the controls that remove the most risk per unit of engineering effort land first.

Also in Application Security Resilience

Web, mobile, and delivery pipeline assessment across the development lifecycle.

Frequently asked questions

Is a DevSecOps gap analysis a penetration test?
No. A gap analysis assesses how your delivery pipeline is built and what it enforces, working with its configuration and with the teams that own it. A penetration test attacks a running system to prove what can be exploited. The gap analysis changes how future vulnerabilities are prevented; a penetration test measures the ones present now.
Do we need a mature pipeline before this is worth doing?
No. The analysis establishes the current state, whatever that is, and the output is a sequenced roadmap rather than a pass or fail. Teams early in adoption often get more from it, because the sequencing is what decides sensibly what to build first.
Will the recommendations require replacing our toolchain?
Recommendations are scoped to the stack you already run. Where a gap cannot be closed with the current tooling, that is stated explicitly along with what changing it would involve, so the decision stays with you.

Scoping this engagement

Send us the systems in scope and the outcome you need. We will respond with a proposed scope, timeline, and commercial terms.

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