Integrate Security Into Your Development Pipeline — Shift Security Left
DevSecOps integrates security testing, vulnerability scanning, and policy enforcement directly into CI/CD pipelines — catching vulnerabilities before they reach production, providing developers with actionable security feedback at the point of development, and automating compliance checks that eliminate manual security review bottlenecks.
What RLM Delivers on DevSecOps
Security reviews at the end of development are too late — they create deployment friction, slow delivery, and leave vulnerabilities in production during the review cycle. DevSecOps shifts security left, making it a development accelerator rather than a deployment gate.
How We Approach DevSecOps
Every DevSecOps engagement starts with what you have today and ends with something running in production — with independent evaluation in between.
SDLC Security Assessment
We assess your current software development lifecycle security posture — identifying where security testing occurs (or doesn't), the scan coverage across code, dependencies, containers, and IaC, and the developer experience that determines adoption.
DevSecOps Toolchain Evaluation
We evaluate DevSecOps tools across the SDLC — SAST (Semgrep, Checkmarx, Veracode), SCA (Snyk, Dependabot, Black Duck), container scanning (Trivy, Aqua), IaC security (Checkov, tfsec) — against your tech stack, CI/CD platform, and developer workflow requirements.
Pipeline Integration Architecture
We design the security gate integration architecture — where in the pipeline security tools run, which findings block deployment vs. generate tickets, and the developer feedback loop that makes security findings actionable.
Security Champions Program
DevSecOps scales through security champions — developers with security expertise who promote security practices within their teams. We design the security champions program and the training curriculum that builds developer security capability.
DevSecOps Evaluation Criteria
What follows is the DevSecOps evaluation checklist we actually use — the criteria that predict outcomes rather than demo well.
Developer Experience
Security tools that generate noisy, low-quality findings are ignored by developers. Evaluate the developer experience — false positive rate, finding clarity, and the actionability of remediation guidance — before selecting security scanning tools.
False Positive Rate
High false positive rates in SAST tools create alert fatigue that causes developers to disable or ignore security scanning. Evaluate false positive rates for your specific technology stack — rates vary significantly by language and framework.
Dependency & Open Source Risk
Third-party dependencies are the largest vulnerability surface in most applications. Evaluate SCA tool coverage — vulnerability database breadth, license compliance scanning, and the transitive dependency visibility that catches indirect vulnerabilities.
Secrets Detection
Hardcoded secrets in source code are a critical vulnerability class. Evaluate secrets detection coverage — API keys, passwords, tokens — and the pre-commit hook integration that prevents secrets from being committed.
IaC Security Coverage
Infrastructure-as-Code misconfigurations create cloud security vulnerabilities before deployment. Evaluate Terraform, CloudFormation, and Kubernetes manifest scanning depth for your specific IaC technologies.
Policy as Code
Security policies encoded in machine-readable form enable automated enforcement. Evaluate the platform's policy-as-code capabilities and the alignment with your existing security policies and compliance requirements.
"We had three overlapping security tools doing the same job. RLM helped us rationalize the stack, cut spend by 30%, and actually improve our detection coverage in the process."
Independent means we will tell you when the answer is to keep what you have.
Where This Matters Most
Sector-specific considerations we see repeatedly in security engagements.
A Sample of the Security Providers We Evaluate
RLM is vendor neutral. These are among 600+ providers in our evaluation set — inclusion here is not an endorsement, and we are paid by the provider you choose, not by any provider in particular. How that works →
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