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 CloudForge 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.
Why evidence belonged in the delivery path
Security evidence is stronger when it is produced by the same controlled workflow that builds and promotes an artifact. That reduces manual audit work and makes a release traceable to source, dependencies, checks, policy decisions and deployment approval.
Controls still need proportion. High-confidence material risk can stop promotion, while lower-confidence findings need ownership and a remediation deadline. A documented exception with scope and expiry is safer than a pipeline that teams learn to bypass informally.
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