SOC 2 Pipeline & Security Hardening

The problem

The company needed SOC 2 for enterprise deals but had ad-hoc security and no audit evidence. They feared a compliance push would grind engineering to a halt.

What I built

• 1Introduced SAST, DAST and container scanning (Trivy) gated in CI.
• 2Centralized secrets in Vault with short-lived, audited credentials.
• 3Codified guardrails with OPA and Conftest, checking IaC and policies on every PR.
• 4Automated control evidence collection so audits became continuous, not a scramble.
• 5Hardened IAM with least-privilege roles and access reviews.

The outcome

Passed SOC 2 Type II six weeks ahead of schedule with zero critical CVEs reaching production. Security became a background guarantee rather than a blocker.