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Strengthen Application Security Through SSDLC

Fixing a security vulnerability in production costs ten times more than catching it during development, and a hundred times more if it results in a breach. Yet many development teams still treat security as something that happens after the code is written, either through a penetration test before release or, worse, after an incident. Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SSDLC) is the practice of integrating security activities into every phase of software development, from initial requirements through design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance. PlutoSec helps Canadian development teams make this shift without slowing down their delivery velocity.

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Threat Modeling

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Secure Code Review

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Security Requirements Engineering

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DevSecOps Pipeline Integration

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Security Training for Developers

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Pre Release Security Testing

Security Is Cheaper to Build In Than to Bolt On

Catch Vulnerabilities 10x Cheaper in Development

Fixing a security vulnerability in production costs ten times more than catching it during development and a hundred times more if it results in a breach. SSDLC shifts security left to where it's cheapest to fix.

Ship Faster With Fewer Security Delays

Security gates in the CI/CD pipeline catch common issues automatically, freeing your security team to focus on complex risks rather than creating a release bottleneck.

Meet Compliance Requirements for Secure Development

PCI DSS Requirement 6, OWASP SAMM, NIST SSDF, and ISO/IEC 27001 Annex A all require or strongly recommend secure development practices. SSDLC helps you implement and document these controls.

How We Embed Security in Your Development Process

We integrate security activities into every phase of your software development life cycle from initial requirements through design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance without slowing down your delivery velocity.

Threat modeling: work with architects and developers during design to identify threats and design countermeasures before a line of code is written.

Security requirements: define security requirements for new features alongside functional requirements.

Secure code review: review application source code for insecure patterns, dangerous functions, hardcoded secrets, and logic flaws.

DevSecOps integration: integrate SAST, SCA, and secret detection into your CI/CD pipeline with security gates.

Developer training: hands-on secure coding training tailored to your team's languages and frameworks.

Pre release testing: targeted security testing before major releases to validate new features and catch regressions.

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Our SSDLC Services

Threat Modeling

Works with your architects and developers during design to identify threats using STRIDE and PASTA methodologies and build countermeasures into the system from the start.

Secure Code Review

Reviews source code for insecure coding patterns, dangerous function use, hardcoded secrets, injection vulnerabilities, and logic flaws across your languages and frameworks.

Security Requirements Engineering

Defines security requirements for new features and projects, ensuring desired security behaviors are specified, tested, and verified alongside functionality.

DevSecOps Pipeline Integration

Integrates SAST, SCA for dependency scanning, and automated secret detection into your CI/CD pipeline with security gates that catch common issues automatically.

Security Training for Developers

Hands-on secure coding training tailored to your team's language and framework, covering real-world vulnerabilities, common mistakes, and practical defenses.

Pre Release Security Testing

Targeted security testing before major releases to validate new features are secure and changes haven't introduced regressions designed to fit within agile sprint cycles.

Security That Accelerates Development, Not Blocks It

PCI DSS, OWASP SAMM, NIST SSDF, and ISO 27001 Aligned

PlutoSec's SSDLC services help development teams make the shift to security-by-design without sacrificing delivery velocity. We work in your languages and frameworks, integrate into your existing CI/CD pipeline, and provide developer training that makes secure coding a team habit rather than a compliance checkbox. The result is lower remediation costs, fewer security delays, and software your customers can trust.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Get answers to common questions about our cybersecurity services and how we can protect your business.

1.What is SSDLC, and why should our development team care about it?

SSDLC is the practice of building security into software at every stage of development rather than testing for it only at the end. When security is tested only before release, fixing vulnerabilities is expensive, time-consuming, and often results in delayed launches. When security is built into the process from requirements through deployment, vulnerabilities are caught earlier, fixes are cheaper, and your team ships with much more confidence.

2.We already do penetration testing before releases. Is SSDLC something we still need?

Penetration testing before release is a good practice, but it is the last line of defense, not a complete security program. If that is the first time security is considered in the development process, you are likely finding issues late and paying a high cost to fix them. SSDLC extends security earlier in the cycle through threat modeling, secure code review, and automated pipeline checks so that the vulnerabilities arriving at the pre-release pen test are fewer and less severe.

3.What is threat modeling, and when should it happen?

Threat modeling is a structured way of thinking through how an application could be attacked before any code is written. During the design phase, our team works with your architects and developers to identify what could go wrong, who might try to make it go wrong, and what controls should be designed into the system from the start. Finding threats at the design stage costs almost nothing to address. Finding the same issues in production can cost enormously more.

4.Can you integrate security tooling into our existing CI/CD pipeline?

Yes. We help integrate Static Application Security Testing, dependency scanning for vulnerable open-source components, secret detection, and other automated security checks directly into your pipeline. Security gates can be configured to block builds that introduce high-severity issues, ensuring that common vulnerability classes get caught automatically without slowing down your development velocity. We work with the pipeline tools your team already uses.

5.Does developer security training actually make a difference?

It does, when the training is practical and relevant to what developers actually build. Generic security awareness courses have limited impact. We provide hands-on training focused on the specific languages, frameworks, and vulnerability types your team encounters in their daily work. When developers understand why certain patterns are dangerous and what the secure alternative looks like, the quality of the code they write improves measurably.

6.Which compliance frameworks require secure development practices?

PCI DSS Requirement 6 specifically requires secure development practices for organizations handling payment card data. OWASP SAMM, NIST SSDF, and ISO/IEC 27001 Annex A all include secure development requirements as well. If you are pursuing any of these frameworks, we can align your SSDLC program to the specific controls required and help you generate the documentation your auditors will look for.