DevSecOps Foundation case studies

DevSecOps Foundation · Put your knowledge to work in context.

The DevSecOps Foundation℠ certification, offered by DevOps Institute, is a credential for professionals who want to embed security into DevOps workflows. It targets a broad audience: compliance team and delivery staff, project and product managers, IT managers, IT security professionals, practitioners and managers, site reliability engineers, DevOps engineers, software engineers, maintenance and support staff, managed service providers, quality assurance teams, release managers, Scrum Masters, and testers. The DevSecOps Foundation case studies are 5 cases and about 3,963 words.

The 8-Day Security Queue and the Emergency Bypass

Northwind Health's platform group has 62 engineers across 9 product teams. Security review is a centralized ticket queue: a change needs security sign-off before production, median wait is 8 business days, and 21% of last quarter's deploys bypassed the queue using an emergency flag.

790 words, about 4 min 2

Long-Lived Cloud Keys in a 42-Repository Pipeline

Meridian Logistics runs 38 microservices on Kubernetes across three cloud accounts. Its CI/CD pipeline uses 14 long-lived cloud access keys stored as masked variables in 42 repositories; two keys have admin privileges because break-glass scripts depend on them.

799 words, about 4 min 3

1,400 Alerts a Week and a Nine-Day Dwell Time

Atlas Retail's security operations center has three analysts covering 24/5. The SIEM ingests 1.8 TB per day, 92% of it verbose application debug logs.

813 words, about 4 min 4

4,200 SAST Findings and a Critical Transitive Dependency

Lumen Pay is a fintech with 120 developers and weekly releases. SAST was added to CI six months ago; it now produces about 4,200 findings per month, 78% marked false positive by developers, and the security team has two application security engineers.

796 words, about 4 min 5

SOC 2 Readiness, a Six-Week Freeze, and 23% Unlinked Changes

Corvus Analytics is preparing for its first SOC 2 Type II audit in four months. It has 70 employees, AWS and GitHub, and 14 policies copied from a template.

765 words, about 4 min