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Security controls built into the pipeline your developers already use, rather than a review that happens after the code is written.
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Quick answer: DevSecOps means moving security checks into the software delivery pipeline: dependency and secret scanning on every commit, container and infrastructure policy checks before deployment, a software bill of materials for every release, and gates that block a vulnerable build instead of flagging it quietly. A DevSecOps assessment takes 2 to 3 weeks and costs $1,000 to $3,920 at our rates. A full pipeline controls build runs 4 to 8 weeks.
Security that lives outside the pipeline arrives too late to be cheap. By the time a scan report lands in an inbox, the code is written, the release is scheduled, and the conversation becomes a negotiation rather than a fix.
NewAgeSysIT builds and runs delivery pipelines for US companies from Princeton, New Jersey. DevSecOps is the layer we add once the pipeline itself is reliable: the same automation, with security decisions made by machines where they can be, and by people where they must be.
Verizon's 2026 DBIR puts vulnerability exploitation at 31% of breaches, now the leading initial access route
Third-party involvement in breaches reached 48%, up roughly 60% year over year
Remediation of known exploited vulnerabilities sat at 26%, down from 38%
IBM's 2026 report puts the US average at $11.5 million, with 247 days to identify and contain
Veracode's 2026 testing found an average security pass rate of 56%, with roughly 44% of code generation tasks producing a known vulnerability when security was not specified
The OWASP Top 10 2025 added Software Supply Chain Failures as its own category, at number three
Those six lines point the same way: more of the risk now arrives through dependencies, third parties, and machine-written code, and all three enter through the pipeline. That is where the controls belong.
Most teams build the pipeline first and add this layer once it is stable. Adding gates to a pipeline nobody trusts just gives people another reason to work around it.
| Comparison | DevOps | DevSecOps | Security services |
|---|---|---|---|
| The goal | Ship changes quickly and safely | Ship changes that are also verifiably secure | Find and reduce risk across the organization |
| Where the work sits | Pipeline, environments, release process | The same pipeline, plus policy and evidence | Applications, networks, people, vendors |
| Typical output | Faster, more reliable delivery | Automated gates, SBOMs, remediation workflow | Test results, risk register, remediation plan |
| Our page | DevOps consulting | This page | IT security and cybersecurity services |
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Each control gets a policy: what severity blocks a build, what warns, who can override, and how an exception expires. Controls without policy produce dashboards nobody reads.
Insecure patterns in your own code
On every pull request
Known vulnerabilities in open-source packages
On every build, plus a daily scan of released versions
Credentials and keys committed to the repository
Pre-commit and on every push, with history scanning at setup
Vulnerable base images and packages
On image build, and continuously for images already deployed
Public buckets, open security groups, missing encryption
Before infrastructure changes are applied
What is actually in a release, so you can answer "are we affected" in minutes
Generated per build, stored per release
Tampered or unverified builds reaching production
At publish time
Runtime issues in a deployed environment
Against staging on a schedule
Open-source licenses your legal team cannot accept
On every build
Drift and risky changes after deployment
Continuously
The supply chain is now its own OWASP category and its own regulatory requirement. What we put in place:
An SBOM per release, generated automatically, stored, and queryable. When the next widely exploited package lands, the question "are we affected and where" takes minutes instead of a week.
Dependency policy: allowed sources, version pinning, update cadence, and a rule for packages with no maintainer.
Build provenance: signed artifacts and a traceable path from commit to deployed image.
Third-party and vendor review, because third-party involvement now appears in nearly half of breaches.
A patch SLA for known exploited vulnerabilities, which is the subset that matters most and the one most teams are slowest on.
Regulation is moving the same way. The EU Cyber Resilience Act's vulnerability reporting obligations came into force on September 11, 2026, with full obligations following on December 11, 2027, and it applies to products with digital elements sold into the EU regardless of where the company sits.
AI now writes a meaningful share of the code in most teams, and the evidence says it does not write secure code by default: Veracode's 2026 testing found a 56% average security pass rate, with roughly 44% of generation tasks producing a known vulnerability when the prompt said nothing about security.
Separately, DORA's research found AI adoption raising delivery throughput and instability together, and IBM reported shadow AI involved in 43% of breached organizations at an average cost of $5.39 million.
Scan generated code the same way as written code, with no exemption for "the AI wrote it."
Require human review on AI-authored changes, sized so review is possible rather than theatrical.
Keep an inventory of approved AI tools and endpoints, so shadow usage is visible.
Block secrets and customer data from leaving in prompts, at the proxy or gateway rather than in a policy document.
Log what models were asked and what they returned where the output affects customers or money.
The fastest way to lose a DevSecOps programme is to turn every check to "block" on a Monday morning. The sequence that works:
Controls run in warn mode. You find out how bad it is without breaking anyone's week
Findings sorted by exploitability and reachability, not raw severity. Most scanner output is noise, and treating it as equal is why teams disengage
Gates block new issues while existing ones sit on a backlog with owners and dates
Existing findings cleared in priority order, starting with known exploited vulnerabilities
Full enforcement, with a documented exception process and expiry dates
| Metric | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Mean time to remediate, by severity | The number that actually reduces risk |
| Known exploited vulnerability exposure | Open issues on the KEV list, which should be a very short list |
| Scan coverage | Share of repositories, images, and infrastructure under policy |
| Build pass rate against policy | Shows whether gates are working or being bypassed |
| False positive rate | A noisy pipeline gets ignored, so this is tracked and tuned |
| Secrets found and rotated | Including historic ones found during setup |
| SBOM coverage | Share of releases with a stored, queryable bill of materials |
| Exception count and age | Exceptions are fine. Permanent exceptions are a policy failure |
NewAgeSysIT is a US company with its own offshore delivery centers, which is how this work runs at $25 to $49 per hour with US-based project leadership.
| Engagement | Effort | Cost at our rates | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| DevSecOps assessment Start here | 40 to 80 hours | $1,000 to $3,920 | 2 to 3 weeks |
| Pipeline security controls build | 100 to 280 hours | $2,500 to $13,720 | 4 to 8 weeks |
| Software supply chain and SBOM setup | 60 to 160 hours | $1,500 to $7,840 | 3 to 6 weeks |
| Secrets management rollout | 60 to 140 hours | $1,500 to $6,860 | 2 to 5 weeks |
| Infrastructure as code policy guardrails | 60 to 160 hours | $1,500 to $7,840 | 2 to 5 weeks |
| Compliance evidence automation | 80 to 200 hours | $2,000 to $9,800 | 3 to 6 weeks |
| Findings backlog burn-down | 80 to 240 hours | $2,000 to $11,760 | Scope-dependent |
| Managed DevSecOps | 80 to 200 hours a month | $2,000 to $9,800 a month | Ongoing |
Tooling licenses are bought in your own accounts rather than resold through us, and much of this can be built on tools you already own.
For a quick figure on a build rather than a security engagement, our app cost calculator takes a couple of minutes.
Change management evidence, access control records, and vulnerability management proof, generated rather than assembled before an audit
Technical safeguards evidence for systems handling protected health information
Secure development, change control, and vulnerability management requirements
Vulnerability handling and reporting for products sold into the EU, in force since September 11, 2026
Secure development lifecycle controls with audit trails
The questionnaire answers your sales team currently chases engineers for
The practical benefit is boring and large: evidence that is produced automatically costs far less than evidence assembled in the three weeks before an audit.
30+ years in software, 1,000+ projects delivered, and a five-star Clutch rating.
We build pipelines, not just reports. The same engineers who add the gates can fix what the gates find.
Tuning over volume. A pipeline that cries wolf gets bypassed, so we measure false positives and tune them down.
Your tools, your licenses. No reselling, and often no new purchases.
US leadership, hybrid rates. Princeton-based project management with our own delivery centers at $25 to $49 per hour.
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DevSecOps is the practice of building security checks into the software delivery pipeline rather than running them as a separate review afterwards. It covers code and dependency scanning, secrets, container and infrastructure policy, release provenance, and the gates that decide what reaches production.
DevOps gets changes to production quickly and reliably. DevSecOps adds security decisions to that same pipeline: what blocks a build, what warns, who can override, and what evidence gets stored. Same automation, extra policy.
At our rates, an assessment runs $1,000 to $3,920, a pipeline controls build $2,500 to $13,720, supply chain and SBOM setup $1,500 to $7,840, secrets management $1,500 to $6,860, and managed DevSecOps $2,000 to $9,800 a month. Tooling licenses stay in your own accounts.
Two to three weeks for an assessment, then four to eight weeks for a controls build. Warn mode starts within the first couple of weeks, which is usually when teams first see the real size of the backlog.
Not if it is rolled out properly. Controls start in warn mode, then block new issues while existing ones burn down, and only move to full enforcement when the backlog is manageable. Build time is kept inside agreed limits, because a slow pipeline gets bypassed.
A software bill of materials lists everything in a release, including open-source dependencies and their versions. You need one when the next widely exploited package appears and someone asks whether you are affected. It is also increasingly required by enterprise customers and by regulation such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act.
It applies to products with digital elements sold into the EU, whoever makes them. Vulnerability reporting obligations came into force on September 11, 2026, with full obligations from December 11, 2027. If you sell software into the EU, the reporting and handling requirements are already live.
It should be scanned and reviewed the same way, with no exemption. Veracode's 2026 testing found a 56% average security pass rate for AI-generated code, with roughly 44% of generation tasks producing a known vulnerability when security was not specified. More code at higher speed means more review capacity, not less.
Keep an inventory of approved tools and endpoints, block secrets and customer data from leaving in prompts at the gateway, and log usage where output affects customers or money. IBM's 2026 report found shadow AI involved in 43% of breached organizations, at an average cost of $5.39 million.
Usually three things: findings prioritized by exploitability rather than raw severity, gates with a policy instead of reports nobody acts on, and automated evidence so audits stop consuming engineering weeks. Most teams have scanners and no decision framework around them.
Yes, and that is the usual outcome. GitHub Advanced Security, GitLab, Snyk, Trivy, Checkov, OWASP ZAP, HashiCorp Vault, and the cloud providers' native services cover most of what is needed, and many clients already own more than they use.
Yes. Backlog burn-down is a defined engagement, and because our engineers also write application and infrastructure code, remediation does not have to be handed back to an already busy team.
Through evidence the pipeline generates: change records, approvals, scan results per release, SBOMs, exception records with expiry dates, and remediation times by severity. That package answers most of a SOC 2 audit and most customer security questionnaires without a scramble.
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