DevSecOps Implementation India — Bachao.AI Methodology

What DevSecOps actually means in practice

DevSecOps is overused as a term. In practice for Indian SaaS engineering teams, it means three things:

1. Pre-merge security checks in CI — vulnerabilities found at PR time, not at audit time
2. Continuous secret + dependency monitoring — caught when introduced, not 6 months later
3. Production-grade security telemetry — observability for security, not just performance

What gets implemented

Layer 1: CI pipeline security

1. SAST (Static Application Security Testing) on every PR
2. SCA (Software Composition Analysis) for dependency vulnerabilities
3. Secrets detection (catches accidental commits of API keys, tokens, credentials)
4. License compliance scanning
5. IaC security (Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes manifests)
6. Container image scanning

1. Daily dependency vulnerability scans
2. Daily secrets scan across all repos and S3
3. Weekly third-party package supply chain review
4. Continuous Docker image vulnerability scan in registry
5. Continuous IaC drift detection

1. CloudTrail-to-SIEM enrichment for cloud-side security events
2. Application log enrichment for security-relevant events
3. Anomaly detection (unusual API patterns, identity behaviour)
4. Identity & access analytics

Toolchain options

We work with what you have. Common combinations:

Lightweight (typical seed-Series A):

1. Semgrep (SAST + custom rules) — free tier or Pro
2. Dependabot or Snyk (SCA)
3. Gitleaks (secrets in CI)
4. tfsec / Checkov (IaC)
5. Trivy (container scan)
6. AWS GuardDuty + CloudTrail

1. Semgrep Pro
2. Snyk
3. Wiz / Lacework (CSPM)
4. Custom SIEM (Datadog Security, Sumo Logic, Elastic Security)
5. Identity Threat Detection (Okta Workflows, Crowdstrike Falcon Identity)

1. Veracode / Checkmarx (Enterprise SAST)
2. Snyk Enterprise
3. Wiz
4. Splunk / Devo
5. Crowdstrike or SentinelOne

The 6-week implementation

Weeks 1–2: Layer 1 (CI pipeline security)

1. Tool selection per language and repo
2. Initial baseline scan (typically returns 200–600 findings)
3. Triage sprint with engineering team (1 hour/day for 4 days)
4. False-positive suppression
5. Pre-merge gate calibration (block on Critical, warn on High, allow Medium/Low for backlog)
6. Per-repo configuration committed

1. Daily scanner jobs scheduled
2. Vulnerability dashboard (1 single pane of glass)
3. Slack alert routing (severity-graduated)
4. Backlog prioritisation working with engineering
5. First 4 weeks of triage

1. CloudTrail / VPC flow log enrichment
2. Application security logs (auth events, privileged actions, data access)
3. Custom detection rules (8–12 typical first iteration)
4. On-call rotation and runbook authoring
5. First synthetic exercise (test the detection)

What you receive

1. Configured CI pipeline checks in every repo
2. Dashboard for vulnerability and security event view
3. Detection rules in your SIEM
4. Runbooks for on-call response
5. Engineering team trained on the workflow
6. Weekly digest of findings and trends
7. Monthly executive summary

Pricing

How to start

A DevSecOps engagement starts with a 90-minute scoping workshop. We review your repos, current CI/CD, tooling, and constraints. Engagement letter within 5 working days.

Schedule the DevSecOps scoping workshop →

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