Center of Excellence Security - DevOps Penetration Testing

Secure Your Development Pipeline with DevOps Penetration Testing

Embedding security into your DevOps pipeline, our penetration testing services identify vulnerabilities early, simulate real-world attacks, and ensure your applications and infrastructure remain resilient.

DevOps Penetration Testing at COE Security

At COE Security, our DevOps Penetration Testing service focuses on evaluating the security posture of your DevOps pipelines, CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) environments, and integrated tools. As organizations adopt DevOps practices to streamline development and delivery processes, it becomes crucial to ensure that security is embedded into every stage of the DevOps lifecycle.

DevOps environments often involve complex integrations between development, testing, and production systems, as well as continuous deployment of applications and infrastructure. This constant flow of code and updates increases the risk of introducing security vulnerabilities if not properly managed. Our penetration testing services help identify security gaps in your DevOps processes, including the infrastructure, configurations, tools, and access controls that support continuous integration and deployment.

With COE Security’s DevOps Penetration Testing, you can proactively secure your development pipelines, prevent vulnerabilities from being introduced into production, and ensure compliance with security standards.

Our Approach

Define Engagement Scope: Identify key components, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, code repositories, and third-party integrations.
Gather Configuration Details: Review DevOps tools, access controls, and network configurations to understand the environment and potential risks.
Evaluate Source Code and Scripts: Analyze code repositories and build scripts for vulnerabilities like insecure coding practices, hardcoded credentials, or weak encryption.
Assess CI/CD Pipeline Security: Examine the entire CI/CD process for misconfigurations, insecure automation, and insufficient access controls.
Test Access Controls and Authentication: Review user roles, permissions, and authentication methods within the DevOps environment for weaknesses or privilege escalation opportunities.

Analyze Third-Party Integrations: Assess the security of third-party tools and services integrated into the DevOps pipeline to ensure they don’t introduce vulnerabilities.
Simulate Attack Scenarios: Perform real-world attack simulations, including lateral movement, privilege escalation, and exploitation of identified vulnerabilities.
Review Infrastructure Security: Assess cloud and on-prem infrastructure for misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and insufficient security controls in production and staging environments.
Verify Logging and Monitoring: Ensure proper logging and monitoring mechanisms are in place to detect and respond to suspicious activity within the DevOps pipeline.
Document Findings and Recommendations: Provide detailed reports with clear risk assessments and actionable remediation steps for strengthening the DevOps environment.

CI/CD Pipelines

Application Codes

Infrastructure as Code

API and Microservices Container and Orchestration Security

DevOps Penetration Testing Methodology

Our established methodology delivers comprehensive testing and actionable recommendations.

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Threat Model

Passive/Active Testing

Firewall Analysis

Reporting

Why Choose COE Security’s DevOps Penetration Testing?

End-to-End Security: We thoroughly assess the entire DevOps pipeline, from code repositories to production, ensuring full coverage.
Expert Team: Our penetration testers specialize in DevOps, deeply understanding the intricacies of modern CI/CD pipelines and automation.
Proactive Risk Identification: We simulate realistic attack scenarios to uncover hidden vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.
Comprehensive Reporting: We deliver clear, actionable reports with detailed risk assessments and prioritized remediation guidelines.
Continuous Integration Focus: We ensure security is smoothly integrated into your CI/CD workflows without disrupting development processes.

Third-Party Tool Evaluation: We rigorously evaluate third-party tools to ensure their security doesn’t compromise your pipeline.
Access Control Reviews: We carefully focus on verifying proper access controls to prevent unauthorized access and privilege escalation.
Cloud and Infrastructure Security: We comprehensively assess cloud and on-prem infrastructure, identifying misconfigurations and security gaps.
Compliance Assurance: We proactively ensure your DevOps pipeline aligns with industry standards like GDPR, PCI DSS, and NIST.
Ongoing Risk Mitigation: We continuously help you strengthen your DevOps environment, reducing future attack and breach vulnerabilities.

Five areas of DevOps Penetration Testing

Application Security Consulting

Our Application Security Consulting service plays a critical role in securing DevOps pipelines. We work with your development and operations teams to integrate security into every stage of your DevOps process, from development through to deployment and beyond. Our experts assist in adopting secure coding practices, securing continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and identifying potential vulnerabilities early in the development lifecycle. We help ensure that security is not an afterthought but a fundamental part of the development process. By embedding security in DevOps, we prevent vulnerabilities from reaching production and reduce the risk of exploitation in live environments.

Secure Software Development Consulting

As part of our Secure Software Development Consulting services, we focus on helping your DevOps teams build secure software from the ground up. We provide guidance on secure coding standards, threat modeling, vulnerability testing, and secure application design principles, ensuring that your applications are resistant to common attack vectors such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and broken authentication. In a DevOps environment, where frequent changes are made to code, our services ensure that security is integrated seamlessly throughout the development cycle, thus preventing the introduction of security flaws during rapid development and deployment cycles.

Software Compliance Testing

Our Software Compliance Testing service ensures that your DevOps processes and applications comply with industry standards and regulatory requirements, such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and SOC 2. Compliance is essential in preventing legal and financial penalties, as well as safeguarding sensitive data. We perform detailed assessments of your CI/CD pipelines, checking for adherence to security controls and privacy regulations. By testing for compliance early in the DevOps process, we help your organization identify gaps in security, data handling practices, and risk management, ensuring that your software meets necessary regulatory standards before it’s deployed.

Application Security Posture Management

Application Security Posture Management is an ongoing, proactive approach to securing applications in a DevOps environment. Our service involves continuously monitoring, assessing, and improving the security posture of your applications throughout their lifecycle. We implement strategies to track vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and compliance issues as they arise, ensuring that your applications stay secure from development to production. We help establish automated security testing within your CI/CD pipeline to identify and fix vulnerabilities continuously, allowing your DevOps teams to act on potential threats early and reduce the risk of cyberattacks over time. This service is integral in maintaining a proactive security posture while balancing the speed of DevOps processes.

Cloud Security Consulting

Many DevOps environments are built on cloud platforms, making Cloud Security Consulting a vital component of DevOps Penetration Testing. We provide expertise in securing cloud infrastructures, applications, and services within a DevOps framework. Our consulting services help you integrate cloud security best practices, such as secure API management, access controls, identity and authentication mechanisms, and secure storage. We focus on securing the infrastructure that supports your CI/CD pipelines, protecting cloud environments against potential threats, and ensuring that your applications are securely deployed and managed in the cloud. Our cloud security expertise also helps with compliance and disaster recovery, ensuring that your cloud-based DevOps processes are resilient against cyberattacks.

Advanced Offensive Security Solutions

COE Security empowers your organization with on-demand expertise to uncover vulnerabilities, remediate risks, and strengthen your security posture. Our scalable approach enhances agility, enabling you to address current challenges and adapt to future demands without expanding your workforce.