DevSecOps Maturity Assessment

About this assessment

DevSecOps makes security an automated part of software delivery, not a gate teams route around, a report that arrives two weeks after release, or a yearly penetration test that finds what pipeline tools should have caught months earlier.

This assessment follows the order in which security is built into delivery: strategy, sponsorship, policy, shared responsibility, champions and training; secure design through requirements, threat modeling, patterns, attack surface and abuse cases; a hardened pipeline with SAST, security review, DAST, IaC and container scanning, blocking gates, configuration validation and secrets drawn from the enterprise vault; the supply chain through composition analysis, registry governance, dependency hygiene, ephemeral builds, signing, SBOMs and AI models; AI and automation security covering generated code, agent permissions, prompt injection and AI feature testing; application remediation through one backlog, enterprise deadlines, automated fixes, penetration testing and external findings; runtime security; and governance through policy as code, audit trails, metrics and improvement.

Questions marked (Bridge) check the link to a companion model without repeating it: Non-Human Identity and Secrets Management for vaulting and rotation, Vulnerability and Patch Management for enterprise deadlines, exceptions and disclosure, and the Security Operations Center model for monitoring and detection. Each question is scored on whether the practice is documented, implemented and effective, which exposes tools bought and documented but not integrated, or integrated with gates left on advisory.