Real-World DevSecOps Engineering

When Your AI Tools Become the Attacker

The Problem in One Sentence The AI tools your organization adopted for productivity — Copilots, MCP servers, Skills, and coding agents — are now actively being weaponized for data theft, credential harvesting, and supply chain attacks. How It's Happening: Four Attack Patterns With Real Incidents 1. Zero-Click Emails That Weaponize

AI Watchtower — The Security Gate Your LLM Stack Quietly Skipped

Every AI agent you ship is an attack surface. A claims processor that follows injected instructions hidden in a submitted document. A customer support bot that leaks account records when asked the right way. A facial recognition assistant manipulated into bypassing identity checks. These are not theoretical — they are the

ShieldKit: The Open-Source Security Suite Your Toolchain Pretends to Be

A Quick Thank You A genuine nod to the open-source community. ShieldKit exists because people at Anchore, Aqua Security, ProjectDiscovery, Bridgecrew, OWASP ZAP, DuckDB Labs, and the Prowler/ScoutSuite projects decided to build world-class security tools and just... give them away. Every scanner ShieldKit wraps, every library it imports — someone

SOCPilot: An AI SOC Co-pilot That Talks to 22 Security Tools — And You Can Run It in 60 Seconds

You've got Sentinel for logs. GreyNoise for IP rep. GHAS for code findings. Prowler for cloud posture. Okta for identity. Vault for secrets. Jira for tickets. Slack for "hey did anyone see this alert." Ten dashboards. Ten query languages. One analyst alt-tabbing through all of them

Cloud Security on a $0 Budget: Hardening AWS from IAM to Kubernetes

You're running EC2 instances with IMDSv1 wide open. Your S3 buckets have ACLs enabled "just in case." Half your Lambda functions share one execution role with * permissions. Your EKS cluster has no Pod Security Standards. And someone is pitching you a $50K/year CSPM. Here'

MCP × SecOps: Wiring 30+ Security Tools into One AI-Powered Nerve Centre

Sentinel for logs. GreyNoise for IP rep. GHAS for code findings. Prowler for cloud posture. Okta for identity. Vault for secrets. Jira for tickets. Slack for "hey did anyone see this alert." Ten dashboards. Ten query languages. One analyst alt-tabbing through all of them like a DJ mixing

You Have 5 Scanners and Zero Visibility: DefectDojo as Your Security Single Pane of Glass

Your pipeline runs Gitleaks, Semgrep, Trivy, ZAP, and Prowler. Five tools generating findings across five dashboards that nobody cross-references. A SQL injection gets flagged by both Semgrep and CodeQL — congratulations, you now have two alerts for one vulnerability and no way to know they're the same thing. Here&

Stop Alerting, Start Blocking: A Practical Guide to GitHub Advanced Security Gating

You're paying $49/committer/month for GitHub Advanced Security. CodeQL runs on every PR. Dependabot files upgrade PRs that sit open until the heat death of the universe. The Security tab has 200+ alerts dating back to 2023. Nobody looks at them. The code ships anyway. Congratulations — you&

Building a DevSecOps Pipeline with GitHub Actions: Part-2

Your pipeline runs 5 security tools. Great. But are they actually blocking bad code — or just logging findings nobody reads? Here's how to turn your security scans into real enforcement with configurable gates, exception management, and custom rules tailored to your stack. In Part 1, we built a

Building a DevSecOps Pipeline with GitHub Actions: Part-1

7 stages. 5 open-source tools. Every commit scanned for secrets, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations before it touches production. Here's the complete blueprint — fork the workflow and deploy it today. Most teams bolt security on at the end. The code ships, the pen test happens three months later, and the

IAM Least Privilege: Auditing & Right-Sizing Permissions with iamlive and Policy Sentry

Your application doesn't need s3:* on Resource: "*". It needs s3:GetObject on one bucket. Here's how to find out exactly what it needs — automatically — and deploy a bulletproof policy in under an hour. If I had a dollar for every IAM policy I'

Automated AWS Security Auditing with Prowler: A Blueprint for Small Teams

You don't need a six-figure security budget to audit your AWS account like the big players. Prowler is free, open-source, and runs 584 security checks in minutes. Pair it with an automated notification pipeline, and you have a production-grade security auditing system for under a dollar a month.