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.
When auditing an organisation’s application security programme, the selection and deployment of Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) tools is a critical control point. A poorly governed tool selection process — or the absence of one — signals systemic weakness in how the organisation manages security tooling across its software delivery lifecycle. This guide provides auditors, … Read more
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) is frequently adopted in enterprise CI/CD pipelines, especially in regulated environments. Yet despite widespread deployment, many DAST implementations fail to deliver meaningful security outcomes or survive audit scrutiny. These failures are rarely caused by the scanning engine itself. Instead, they stem from architectural misplacement, unreliable execution, excessive noise, and unusable … Read more
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) is a critical runtime security control in regulated software delivery environments. For auditors, compliance officers, and regulators, the question is not which DAST tool an organisation uses, but whether DAST controls are adequate, enforced, and evidenced. This guide provides a structured framework for assessing an organisation’s DAST controls within CI/CD … Read more
Request for Proposals (RFPs) are a common mechanism for selecting Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools in large organizations. Yet, in regulated environments, many SAST RFPs fail — not at procurement time, but months later during audits, incidents, or operational reality. This failure is rarely caused by a poor tool choice alone. It is usually … Read more
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) is often presented as a core DevSecOps control. However, there is a significant gap between how security teams believe auditors assess SAST and how auditors actually do it. In regulated environments, auditors do not evaluate SAST tools as security products. They evaluate them as operational controls within the software delivery … Read more
SAST Tool Selection — Enterprise Audit Table Scope: Evaluation of a Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tool for enterprise and regulated CI/CD environments. # Control Area Audit Question Yes No 1 Governance Does the tool support policy-based enforcement (block / warn / report-only)? ☐ ☐ 2 Governance Can policies be defined per application, team, or … Read more
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) is a foundational control in secure software delivery. However, the presence of a SAST tool alone does not constitute an effective control. Auditors, compliance officers, and regulators must assess whether the organisation’s SAST tool governance — from selection through ongoing operation — meets the standards required by frameworks such as … Read more
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) is a foundational security control in regulated software delivery environments. For auditors, compliance officers, and regulators, the critical question is not which SAST tool an organisation has selected, but whether SAST controls are effective, enforced, evidenced, and governed. In regulated environments, SAST is not a tooling decision — it is … Read more
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
What to Show, Where to Find It, and Why It Matters This evidence pack lists the technical and operational artifacts that financial institutions should present to demonstrate compliance with DORA Article 21.It focuses on CI/CD pipelines as regulated ICT systems and emphasizes reproducible, audit-ready evidence. How to Use This Evidence Pack Article 21(1) — ICT … Read more
