Security Engineering

Turn security recommendations into working controls

The implementation half of the work. Pipelines, automation, architecture, and remediation, built in your stack and handed over with documentation.

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The Problem

Recommendations do not ship themselves

Assessment reports accumulate. Most organizations we work with are not short of advice; they are short of the engineering time to act on it. The roadmap says "integrate SAST into CI and route findings to owning teams," which is one line in a document and often several weeks of integration, tuning, and rollout involving a pipeline, a rule set, a triage path, and a conversation with every team that is about to start receiving tickets.

This is also where security firms usually stop. We do the build. It is the same people who did the assessment, which means the fix reflects what the finding actually was rather than a reading of the summary.

Who this is for

Engineering teams holding a remediation backlog they cannot staff
Security teams that can specify a control but not build it
Organizations standing up DevSecOps for the first time
Teams with tooling that produces findings nobody acts on
Companies facing a supply-chain or SBOM requirement with a deadline

Common triggers

An assessment produced a roadmap and nothing has moved in two quarters
A customer or regulator requires SBOMs, signing, or provenance by a date
Security tooling is generating noise instead of closed findings
A re-architecture is starting and the security design should land first
A high-severity finding needs fixing properly, not worked around

What We Do

Services in this Practice

Delivered as scoped project work or as part of a longer engagement following an assessment.

DevSecOps Implementation

Security checks that run where the work happens, at a speed developers will tolerate. Pre-commit, pull request, and pipeline stages chosen so the signal arrives while the context is still fresh.

What you get Working pipeline stages, tuned rulesets, and developer-facing documentation

CI/CD Security

Hardening the pipeline itself: runner isolation, credential scoping, artifact provenance, branch and environment protections, and the third-party actions quietly running with your tokens.

What you get Hardened pipeline configuration and a review of every privileged path into it

Security Automation

Replacing recurring manual security work with code: triage routing, deduplication, ticket creation with real context, evidence collection, and the scheduled checks nobody remembers to run.

What you get Automation in your stack, with tests, runbooks, and handover

Secure Architecture Design

Designing the architecture rather than reviewing one that already exists: identity, secrets, tenancy isolation, data flow, and blast-radius containment. Done before the build where possible, and during the rewrite where not.

What you get Architecture decision records and reference patterns, then the reference implementation that proves the pattern works

Remediation Engineering

Fixing the findings rather than describing them. Useful when a report lands on a team that is already fully committed, or when the fix needs someone who has seen the failure mode before.

What you get Merged pull requests with tests, plus verification that the finding is closed

SBOM Automation

Generating a software bill of materials as a build artifact rather than a quarterly project, with the storage, retrieval, and diffing that make it useful when a new advisory lands.

What you get SBOM generation in the pipeline, retention, and an advisory response workflow

Software Supply-Chain Controls

Dependency policy, artifact signing and verification, base image management, and the provenance chain from commit to deployed artifact.

What you get Signing and verification in the pipeline with a documented trust model

Security Tool Integration

Making the tools you already bought work together: consistent findings, one queue, no duplicates, and results that reach the team that can act on them.

What you get Integrated toolchain with normalized findings and defined ownership routing

Secure Application Engineering

Feature and platform work where the security properties are the point: authentication and authorization systems, multi-tenancy, audit logging, and key handling.

What you get Production code with tests, documentation, and a threat model for what was built

Custom Internal Security Tooling

The tool that does not exist commercially because it is specific to how your systems are shaped. Usually small, and usually the thing a team has been working around for months.

What you get A source-controlled internal tool with tests and operational documentation

Deliverables

What You Receive

Working code in your repositories, reviewed through your normal process
Tests covering the control, so a later change that breaks it fails loudly
Documentation and runbooks written for the team that inherits the control
Architecture decision records capturing what was chosen and what was rejected
Handover session with the engineers who will own it afterwards
Measurement showing the control operating, not merely deployed

Also Available

Custom Software Engineering

717 DEV has built production software for clients for years, and still does. Web applications, APIs and integrations, and cloud-native systems, built by engineers who also do the security work, which tends to show up in the authentication, the data handling, and the parts that usually get rushed.

This is no longer the center of what the firm does, but it has not gone anywhere. If you need software built and you would rather it were built by people who know how it gets attacked, this is available as a standalone engagement.

Custom application development
Web applications
APIs and integrations
Cloud-native builds
Legacy modernization
Technical due diligence support

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Where This Connects

Have a backlog that needs building?

Bring the roadmap, the report, or the requirement with a date on it. We will tell you what it takes.