Secure Delivery Pipeline

A delivery pipeline where security controls run as part of the build contract instead of as a separate review stage.

Security findings arrived late, after code was already merged and often already deployed.

Late feedback made remediation expensive and made security feel adversarial to delivery.

Pipelines had to stay under a strict time budget, and no control could be added without a documented failure mode.

Scanning, SBOM generation and artifact signing run in the build stage; admission policy verifies signatures and provenance at deploy time.

Blocked only on high-confidence, high-severity findings; everything else is reported and tracked rather than enforced.

Shipped in warn-only mode first, then promoted individual rules to enforcing once their false-positive rate was known.

Placeholder — measured outcomes will be published with the real case study.

A control nobody trusts gets bypassed. Publishing the false-positive rate did more for adoption than any policy document.