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DevSecOps Pipeline Integration Checklist: Controls Across the CI/CD Lifecycle

Security controls across the ten stages of a CI/CD pipeline, each with its objective, tools, and owner, plus a four-quarter rollout roadmap.
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Shifting security left fails when it's a slogan instead of a control set with owners. A pipeline has specific insertion points, from commit to build, container, infrastructure code, pre-production gate, and runtime, and each one needs a control and an accountable team. This checklist names them all.

Key Takeaways

  • 37 controls placed across 10 pipeline stages, from Strategy and Governance through commit, build, container, IaC, CI/CD, pre-production gates, runtime, feedback, and metrics.
  • Each control names the team that owns it, so accountability is assigned rather than assumed, spanning CISO, DevOps, AppSec, Cloud, SRE, Compliance, and Legal.
  • Regulatory mandates (ISO 27001, NIST SP 800-53, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS) are translated into concrete pipeline guardrails rather than left as policy.
  • Every control lists real tooling: SAST (SonarQube, Semgrep), SCA (Snyk, OWASP Dependency-Check), container scanning (Trivy, Cosign), IaC (Checkov, OPA), DAST (OWASP ZAP), secrets (Vault, GitGuardian).
  • The Quarterly Roadmap sheet sequences all of it into a Q1 to Q4 adoption plan with expected outcomes per phase.

What's Inside

Two sheets: the control set, and a phased rollout of the same controls.

  • Sheet 1, DevSecOps Integration: every row is one control, grouped by pipeline stage.
  • Strategy and Governance (charter, maturity model, regulatory mapping, risk classification).
  • Code Commit and SCM (signed commits, pre-commit hooks, SAST, linting).
  • Dependency and Build Security (secure build, SCA, SBOM, secrets management).
  • Container Security and Infrastructure as Code (image scanning and signing, IaC scanning, policy as code).
  • CI/CD Pipeline Controls, Pre-Production Security Gates, Post-Deployment and Runtime, Feedback and Improvement, and Metrics and Reporting.
  • Sheet 2, Quarterly Roadmap: the same controls sequenced into a Q1 to Q4 rollout, each phase with its focus area, key initiatives, expected outcomes, and owner.

Every control lists its objective, the tools that implement it, and the role responsible.

How to use it

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Map your current pipeline. Go stage by stage and mark which of the 37 controls you already run.
02
Read across the row. Each control gives its objective, the tools that implement it, and the team responsible.
03
Sequence the gaps. Use the Quarterly Roadmap sheet to phase the missing controls across four quarters instead of all at once.
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