DEA CI/CD & Security Hardening

DevSecOps platform that fused zero-trust governance with rapid delivery for investigative workloads.

Mission

Modern tooling with uncompromising security

The DEA’s investigative teams rely on specialized software to coordinate field operations. Legacy delivery processes slowed feature velocity and made it hard to prove compliance across agencies.

We partnered with in-house engineers to implement a hardened DevSecOps platform—introducing automated governance, safer releases, and dashboards that satisfied both cyber and mission leadership.

In this DevSecOps case study, automated policy gates, SBOM-backed supply chain controls, and CodeQL scanning cut audit cycles and reduced deployment risk. The business impact: faster feature delivery to the field with evidence-ready compliance for every release train.

Impact snapshot

40% faster release cadence with no critical findings in ATO reviews.
Automated gates blocked misconfigured infrastructure before it reached production.
Shared observability connected cyber teams and mission owners via one dashboard.

Discuss secure delivery

Policy-as-code

DoD/DHS baseline controls encoded as reusable checks that run automatically within pipelines and runtime clusters.

Secure supply chain

SBOM generation, signing, and artifact provenance tracked across build stages to meet FedRAMP+ expectations.

Mission-ready delivery

Release trains coordinated with field offices so investigative tooling shipped predictably without downtime.

What we delivered

Reusable IaC modules with STIG-compliant defaults.
End-to-end CI/CD pipelines with SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and policy-as-code stages.
Centralized SBOM + artifact signing for every build.
Playbooks aligning release trains with mission planning cycles.