Ops Pillar · DevSec Ops

Security and delivery, in one loop.

DevSec Ops is a secure delivery control board from commit to production: scan, gate, sign and verify every pipeline, keep the software supply chain clean, and ship through governed change and risk gates, so Sentinel AI can stop a risky release before it lands.

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Shift-left scanning
Software supply chain
Change & risk gates
GitOps delivery
Release trains

Secure delivery control boardLive

PipelinesGreenPassing

Security gatesEnforcedOn

FindingsTriagedFixing

Supply chainSignedVerified

Delivery security

Gate blocked a deploy

A critical finding stopped the release before production.

Image signed & verified

Build produced an SBOM and a verified signature.

Approval pending

Routed by the approval matrix for this app and environment.

What is DevSec Ops

Ship fast, and ship safe, in the same loop.

Speed and security usually pull against each other, until security is bolted on at the end and slows everyone down. DevSec Ops puts security inside delivery: it scans, gates, signs and verifies every pipeline, keeps the software supply chain clean and provable, ships through governed change and risk gates, and manages releases end to end, so teams move fast on a paved, secure road.

Shift-left delivery security

Scan, gate, sign and verify, every pipeline.

DevSec Ops runs security where the work happens: dependency (SCA), code (SAST), secrets, infrastructure-as-code, license and image scanning on every build. Findings become a shift-left worklist by service and build, so issues are fixed at the keyboard, not discovered in production.

SCA, SAST, secrets, IaC, license and image scanning
A shift-left worklist by service and build
Scan, gate, sign and verify on every pipeline

FindingsBy type

SCAvulnerable dependency in a serviceFix

SASTcode issue flagged in a pull requestReview

SECRETcredential detected in a commitBlock

IaCmisconfiguration in a manifestWatch

Software supply chain

Know what you ship, and prove it.

Every build produces a software bill of materials and a signature, so you always know exactly what is inside an artifact and can prove where it came from. Dependencies, images, SBOMs, signing and registries are one build-aware chain, read live, so a compromised component has nowhere to hide.

SBOM generated for every build
Artifact signing and provenance verification
Dependencies, images and registries in one chain

Supply chainBuild-aware

SIGNEDartifact signature verifiedOK

Change & risk gates

Nothing ships without passing the gate.

Every pull request runs the security gate, and every deploy passes a change-and-risk gate governed by a per app and per environment approval matrix. Risky changes are scored, approvals are routed automatically, and deployment stops hold anything that has not cleared, so speed never outruns safety.

Security gate on every pull request
Per app and per environment approval matrix
Change risk scoring and deployment stops

Change & risk gateCommit to prod

Approval matrix

This app and environment require the right approvers before deploy.

GitOps delivery & database DevOps

Git is the source of truth, for code and schema.

Desired state lives in Git and actual state is read live from your clusters, so drift is visible and rollbacks are a revert. Schema changes are code too: changelogs in Git, applied through governed pipelines, so the database evolves as safely and reviewably as the application.

GitOps: desired state in Git, actual state read live
Database DevOps: schema changelogs applied by pipeline
Drift detection and revert-based rollback

GitOpsDesired vs actual

GITdesired state, versionedSource

CLUSTERactual state, read liveIn sync

DRIFTone app differs from GitReconcile

DBschema changelog applied by pipelineDone

Release management & report cards

See what's live, and how healthy it is.

Bundle apps into release trains with one approval and one closure check, track any commit from merge to exactly where it is live, and grade every service against the paved-road checklist. Rollback history feeds the risk score, so the platform learns which changes are safe to move fast.

Release trains, calendar and commit-to-live tracking
Service report cards graded against the paved road
Rollback history that feeds the risk score

Service report cardsPaved road

payments-serviceA

checkout-serviceA

orders-serviceB

inventory-serviceC

legacy-adapterD

06Real-world use cases

Built for the releases you already ship

These are not demo scenarios. Each one is a situation DevSec Ops teams meet in real operations, and each ends the same way: an investigation that starts at the evidence and finishes with a decision someone can defend.

A secret is committed

Secrets scanning flags it on the build, onto the shift-left worklist.

Fixed at the keyboard

A dependency is compromised

SBOM and registry chain show every artifact carrying the component.

Blast radius in minutes

Config drifts from Git

Desired state in Git, actual state read live from the clusters.

Rollback is a revert

A release train needs approving

Apps bundled, approved once, tracked from commit to exactly where it is live.

One gate, not ten

07Business perspective

What it is worth outside the pipeline

DevSec Ops is an engineering capability with a business ledger. The entries that matter are faster secure delivery, lower breach exposure, fewer risky releases and provable compliance, and it moves all of them.

Faster secure delivery

Security runs inside the pipeline, not after it.

Lower breach exposure

SBOMs and signing make a compromised component findable.

Fewer risky releases

Change risk scored and gated per app and environment.

Provable compliance

Every build, gate and approval recorded automatically.

08The numbers

The cost of the wait, summed honestly

Worked example for a mid-size engineering org. Every figure shows the sum it came from; during a pilot we substitute your own inputs.

Engineer hours waiting on review

15,360 hrs

20/mo × 2 days × 8 hrs × 4 engineers × 12

Annual cost of the wait

$1.38M

15,360 hrs × $90/hr fully loaded

Emergency patching

800 hrs

5/qtr × 10 hrs × 4 engineers × 4

Released if the gate stops queueing

$691k

Modelled at 50% reduction, not a measured result

DevSec Ops sees. Sentinel acts.

DevSec Ops does more than flag a finding or hold a deploy. Every signal, pipeline health, findings, supply-chain provenance, gate status and rollbacks, feeds Sentinel AI, the intelligence component at the core of Opstral, which acts through governed, reversible Action Tickets.

Block a risky deploy, open a fix pull request, roll back a bad release, every action explained with citations and fully audited.

Observe
DevSec Ops correlates findings, gate status, supply-chain provenance and rollbacks.
Investigate
Sentinel AI scores the change risk and decides whether it is safe to proceed.
Act
ProcBot holds, reverts or opens a fix, through a reversible Action Ticket.
Optimize
Sherlock validates the outcome and feeds the learning back into the risk score.

See DevSec Ops on your own pipelines.

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