CI/CD security best practices for protecting software delivery pipelines in enterprise and regulated environments. This category covers CI/CD pipeline security, secrets management, artifact integrity, access control, and risk mitigation across the continuous integration and continuous delivery lifecycle.
How auditors verify DAST tool selection and deployment in regulated environments: a governance verification framework, a consolidated tool-selection audit checklist, and the common reasons DAST implementations fail despite widespread adoption.
A structured framework for auditors, compliance officers, and regulators assessing DAST controls in regulated CI/CD environments — covering coverage, enforcement, evidence, and exception governance — and how auditors actually review DAST in practice, including the deficiencies that most often trigger findings.
A verification framework for auditors assessing SAST tool governance — from a 28-point selection audit checklist and the reasons most SAST RFPs fail, through policy enforcement, evidence, and regulatory alignment under DORA, NIS2, and ISO 27001.
A structured framework for auditors and compliance officers assessing SAST controls in regulated environments — covering coverage, enforcement, exception governance, and evidence, plus a step-by-step walk-through of how auditors actually review SAST during an audit.
CI/CD pipelines are increasingly in scope during security and regulatory audits. While many organizations focus on policies and tooling descriptions, auditors assess CI/CD pipelines very differently in practice. This guide explains how auditors really approach CI/CD reviews, what they look for first, how they test controls, and why many organizations fail audits despite having “secure” … Read more
A single, audit-ready reference for DORA Article 21 in a CI/CD context: a requirement-by-requirement deep dive, a controls-to-evidence mapping, an auditor checklist, and an evidence pack for regulatory assessments.
A cross-framework audit mapping that connects core CI/CD security controls to ISO 27001, SOC 2, DORA, NIS2 and PCI DSS. Each framework section carries its own mapping table and evidence expectations, plus guidance on using the mapping in an audit and the mistakes to avoid.
