Finance · Trading
CI/CD pipeline for a regulated trading infrastructure
Full build → SAST/DAST → deploy automation with integrated audit traceability. Release cycles moved from monthly to weekly.
Context
A regulated trading firm delivered to production once a month, with two-week manual test cycles and insufficient audit traceability to satisfy regulatory requirements. Each deployment mobilised three teams for a full day.
Challenge
Automate the full pipeline while maintaining the security controls and audit traceability required by the regulator — without degrading trading system stability or generating blocking false positives in SAST/DAST analysis.
Our approach
How we built it
Audit of the existing delivery chain, target pipeline design, then incremental rollout. Integration of SAST (Semgrep, Checkmarx) and DAST (OWASP ZAP) in the pipeline with thresholds calibrated to eliminate false positives. Full commit → artefact → deploy → audit log traceability, integrated into the existing regulatory ticketing tool.
Engagement model
Measured outcomes
4×
Release frequency (monthly → weekly)
–80%
Validation cycle time
100%
End-to-end audit traceability
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