
Case Studies
How Embedded Security Engineers Transformed Security in a Global Energy Giant
by Amber Williams
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RiverSafe’s DevSecOps and CI/CD integration service embeds SAST, DAST, and SCA into your pipelines with automated pass/fail gates so issues are caught before they ship, not after.
We work with teams that have nothing in place, teams with tools that are not consistently enforced, and teams responding to an audit finding or incident that exposed the gap.

Tooling, gates, and a blueprint that works across your whole pipeline.
The engagement produces a working CI/CD security integration, not a set of recommendations.
RiverSafe practitioners configure the tooling, set the gates, and document a reusable blueprint so that new pipelines and new teams start from the same baseline.

Before configuring anything, we map what exists: which pipelines are in use, which tools are already present, what gates are enforced, and where the gaps are relative to a consistent security baseline.
This produces the scope for the integration work and identifies which teams or pipelines need attention first.

Static application security testing configured into your build pipeline to scan code on every commit or pull request.
Tool selection and configuration is based on your language stack, the same tool tuned generically produces noise; tuned to your codebase it produces findings developers act on.

Software composition analysis configured to scan dependencies on every build, flagging outdated libraries, known CVEs, and licence obligations before they reach production.

Dynamic application security testing run against a deployed instance of the application as part of the pipeline.
Catches runtime vulnerabilities that static analysis cannot see: authentication issues, injection flaws in running services, misconfigured headers and session handling.

Automated gates that block a build, a merge, or a release when findings breach agreed thresholds.
Configured to enforce security requirements without creating manual review dependencies or blocking legitimate low-risk releases.
A documented security pipeline design covering tool selection, integration points, gate thresholds, alerting rules, and the override process. Written to be reused as the standard template for new pipelines across the engineering organisation.
Working SAST, SCA, and DAST integrations in your pipelines, configured for your stack and tuned to produce actionable findings rather than noise. Production ready configuration.


Automated build and release gates set at thresholds agreed with your engineering and AppSec teams, with an override process for cases where accepted risk justifies bypassing a gate.
Security findings from all tools routed into your existing issue tracker with agreed severity and priority mappings, and alerting configured so the right people see the right signal without being flooded with noise.
Written guidance for engineering teams on how the security pipeline works, what the gates enforce, and how to respond to findings. Designed for self-service so teams do not need to ask the AppSec team how the pipeline behaves.
A quick way to establish a scored baseline of your application security programme and identify key gaps before starting a developer enablement engagement.
Book a 30-minute scoping call. We will assess your current pipeline setup, agree which tools and gates are right for your stack, and give you a clear integration plan.