Product security with DevSecOps consulting services

Ensure secure product development from the outset with an advanced lifecycle strategy

Develop software based on secure-by-design concepts

Build a tailored development process that adheres to the secure software development lifecycle (S-SDLC), where compliance and cybersecurity are top priorities

Reduce costs while ensuring product security levels

Secure development processes, customized to your needs

Lower costs of implementing security controls. Apply security measures at the earliest stages of design and development to optimize outgoings
Improve the quality of your products. Implement security from the outset for maximum effectiveness
Meet security requirements and standards. Create OWASP, NIST, GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS compliant software
Build security tailored to your business needs. Design agile and user-friendly security controls using dedicated security engineers
Boost customer trust by protecting privacy. Protect user privacy and build confidence by making security an integral part of your products
Maximum effectiveness of your security programs. Secure products at any level of the development lifecycle, from designing, to deployment
Secure-by-design. Use a secure development process to build a stable, safe, and robust product
Implement best cybersecurity practices. Meet your industry's cybersecurity needs

Security hardening with DevSecOps

Zappi used our DevSecOps expertise to improve their software development processes & security levels.

Netguru has excellent developers who love what they do, have contributed to the tech community, and have a broad range of skills. Their project management is equally professional meaning there are no surprises.

The bottom line is that both our developers and product managers enjoy working with them, meaning Netguru continues to be our chosen outsourcing partner.

In our most recent project Netguru supported us in DevSecOps area.

They helped us improve our software development processes through automation and hardening.

Thanks to this support, we were able to improve part of our internal processes and ensure greater security of our services already at the production stage.

Brendon McLean

Chief Technology Officer at Zappi

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Netguru is our key partner in processing and securing sensitive medical data. Their professional approach and experience has supported us through many of the challenges we have faced. We look forward to future endeavors with proven confidence that Netguru will continue to deliver state-of-the-art solutions.
Sebastian Boëthius
Director of Technology in Keto-mojo

Establish secure development processes

Enhance cybersecurity and avoid implementation compromises with bespoke solutions

Risk assessment. Leverage a holistic map of potential weak spots to assess technical and business risk
Threat modeling. Identify security vulnerabilities and attack scenarios, and include security controls within project scope
Consulting and architecture analysis. Support design and development teams with expert security knowledge and tailor-made solutions
CI/ CD pipeline hardening. Reconfigure and expand processes, enabling early detection of security issues and compliance
Extended security testing. Broaden security coverage with regular assessments, accelerating secure app development
Cloud hardening. Pinpoint missing security controls and facilitate their implementation at config level

Secure software development lifecycle (S-SDLC) framework

Using DevSecOps to project management according to S-SDLC – driven by business-oriented consulting, and with security paramount

Risk assessment. Taking place in the early stages of the software development lifecycle and fundamental to the secure-by-design approach, this outlines potential risk from a business perspective.
Threat modeling and architecture analysis. Ideal when building a product from scratch and usable at every stage of the framework, these utilize proposed use cases, test cases and user stories to identify and analyze security threats and build customized solutions.
CI/CD pipeline hardening and static analysis (SAST&DAST). Reshape developer IT workflows to enhance resiliency, single out security errors at the development stage, and adhere to international standards and legal standards such as OWASP, NIST, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS.
Security testing. Extend quality assurance scope and improve continuity via audits and assessments at every sprint, quickening secure product development and reducing time-to-market, with cybersecurity out-of-the-box.
Security assessment and secure configuration. Uncover misconfigurations, potential vulnerabilities and threats to cloud environments, test access and security policies, verify data protection in transit and at rest, assess and harden critical services, and offer improvement recommendations.

What are DevSecOps services?

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DevSecOps services help build a secure foundation for DevOps initiatives. The meaning of DevSecOps is development, security, and operations.

DevSecOps involves considering application and infrastructure security from the outset and end to end. DevSecOps also incorporates automation, to ensure the DevOps workflow isn’t compromised.

To continuously integrate product security, it’s important to choose the right tools and integrate security right from the start.

DevSecOps approach sees security as integral to the software development lifecycle (SDLC), building it in at the start of the pipeline, and creating code with security in mind.

Our top-class DevSecOps strategies include sub-services such as risk assessment, threat modelling, and CI/CD pipeline hardening.

Differences between DevOps and DevSecOps

DevOps is a combo of two words: Development and operations. DevSecOps amalgamates three words: Development, security and operations.
DevOps bridges the gap between development teams and IT operations, ensuring collaboration. DevSecOps is integrated within DevOps, building security into every step and optimizing the DevOps strategy.
DevOps breaks down the organizational silos that exist between development and operations by creating a continuous delivery pipeline. DevSecOps builds security in at every stage of the development lifecycle.
DevOps supports the agile movement and enhances productivity and efficiency, accelerating the product launch lifecycle. DevSecOps is a security-first approach, validating security without impairing the development lifecycle, and installing security into the architecture from the very start.

DevSecOps strategy

An effective DevSecOps strategy involves three key components: Secure-by-design, defence-in-depth, and shift-left security.

Secure-by-design is a cybersecurity approach that allows businesses to automate data security controls and build security into IT processes from the outset.

It focuses on stopping a breach rather than one happening, then fixing it. Secure-by-design looks to continually manage, monitor, and maintain security risks.

The cloud makes it easier for developers to accomplish security-by-design. Originating from a military strategy, defence-in-depth is a layered security architecture that provides defence measures, in case a vulnerability is exploited or a control fails.

The idea is to delay a cyber attack rather than defeat it. Defence-in-depth utilizes physical, technical, and administrative security controls.

The secure-by-design concept forces shift-left security, meaning IT security is implemented at the earliest design stages, reducing the costs associated with exposing potential security issues further down the line.

The sooner a threat is diagnosed, the cheaper it is to remove and secure it.

Best DevSecOps methods

DevSecOps services apply security at each stage of the DevOps pipeline.

These phases include plan, code, build, test, and deploy. The tools involved include:

Risk assessment
Threat modeling
Consulting & architecture analysis
CI/CD pipeline hardening and review
Extended security testing with penetration testing and security audits (Black Box, Grey Box, and White Box)
Cloud hardening
Vulnerability scanning
Configuration hardening and review
Source code review
Red Teaming
Phishing tests
Open-source intelligence
Incident response and digital forensics

DevSecOps culture

DevSecOps culture focuses on uniting development, security, and operations. Normally siloed, DevSecOps installs collaboration and shared responsibilities, breaking down barriers. It offers common goals across disciplines and departments and fosters empathy.

There are four main pillars:

People
Processes
Technologies
Governance

Integrate security from the outset and at all stages

Our talented and experienced cybersecurity team offers project management according to S-SDLC, with security and compliance a top priority – especially important for health, fintech and retail

Transforming Nodus Medical with cloud migration

Improving security efficiency for a healthcare startup.

The Nodus Medical platform is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, streamlining the surgical process.

Netguru security team helped them scale securely and robustly, migrating their infrastructure to the Amazon Web Services cloud.

They encrypted the staging database, centralized logs, and implemented AWS CloudTrail to further strengthen security.

After all, data security is the main non-medical concern for the healthcare industry.

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Empowering firms with client-facing technology

Ensuring security and regulatory compliance for Digital Wealth Solutions (DWS).

Netguru helped DWS improve and complement traditional financial advice via well-designed technology that created a secure, compliant, and user-friendly environment.

The platform offers a space to deal with financial affairs that’s securely segregated, accessed and managed. Handling sensitive info, security was prioritized from the start, and at every stage of design and development.

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Building a secure, and compliant app for CashCape

Developing first-rate security and identity protection controls.

Our cybersecurity team evaluated CashCape’s entire process, and helped them build a financial virtual assistant app from scratch, enabling customers to manage their personal finances and offering cheap short-term loans.

Working on the app’s backend and frontend, we secured the data of their users. Our team also highlighted potential security issues, blocking them before they occurred.

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See how our support helped those companies

"As Digital Wealth Solutions operates in Financial Services, security is a major priority. Netguru’s security expertise has been crucial to allowing us to design, build and test a secure, bespoke platform. Netguru’s team of cybersecurity experts conduct thorough analyses that help us to identify potential threats and determine the best ways to further enhance platform security."

Eoin O'Gorman
Co-founder
"Working with the Netguru team was an amazing experience. They have been very responsive and flexible. We definitely increased the pace of development. We’re now releasing many more features than we used to before we started the cooperation with Netguru."

Marco Deseri
Chief Digital Officer
"My experience working with Netguru has been excellent. Outstanding software teams are resilient, and our developers at Netguru have certainly proven to be that. Our Netguru friends have become as close to team members as possible, and I am grateful for the care and excellence they have provided."

Gerardo Bonilla
Product Manager

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Frequently asked questions

Learn all about DevSecOps today to protect your business in the future

Why Is DevSecOps necessary?

A DevSecOps platform bridges the gap between IT and security, implementing enhanced communication and shared responsibility at all phases of the development process.

DevSecOps helps clients build a tailored and secure product in a cost-optimal way, while meeting compliance needs.

What is DevSecOps model?

DevSecOps infrastructure focuses on providing project management according to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), a framework for securely building products and apps.

Secure SDLC integrates security into development processes right from the start, optimizing costs.

What are the key principles of DevSecOps?

The key principles of an effective DevSecOps environment are secure-by-design, defence-in-depth, and shift-left security.

Secure-by-design allows businesses to automate data security controls and install security into IT processes from the outset.

Defence-in-depth provides security controls to delay a cyber attack rather than defeat it. Shift-left security involves implementing IT security from the start of the development process, reducing costs around detecting potential security issues.

Is DevSecOps a framework?

DevSecOps is a service and an approach that utilizes the Secure Software Development Lifecycle (S-SDLC) framework, where security is a top priority.

DevSecOps helps clients dealing with sensitive and risky data (particularly healthcare, retail and fintech companies) create and maintain a compliant product, according to best security standards and practices.