DevSecOps Transformation and SOC 2 Type II Compliance Automation for a HealthTech Startup

Key Results

  • SOC 2 Type II Certified
  • 80% Vulnerability Coverage
  • 6-Month Certification
  • Automated Audit Trails

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Project Background

A fast-growing HealthTech startup handling sensitive patient data needed SOC 2 Type II certification to close enterprise sales deals that had been stalled for months. Security had been an afterthought — no secrets management, no infrastructure hardening, no audit logging — and their development pipeline had no security gates whatsoever.

The Challenge

We were engaged to both secure the existing environment and build a DevSecOps culture from the ground up — all under a hard deadline of six months to satisfy a major health system’s procurement team. The engineering team had no prior security background and needed practical, non-disruptive tooling they could maintain independently.

What We Delivered

  • Conducted a full infrastructure audit and remediated 47 critical findings across AWS IAM, S3 bucket policies, and security group configurations
  • Integrated Snyk and Trivy into the CI pipeline for SAST, dependency scanning, and container image scanning with hard-fail thresholds
  • Replaced hardcoded secrets and environment variables with HashiCorp Vault backed by AWS KMS
  • Implemented CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark controls via AWS Config Rules with automated remediation Lambdas
  • Built a centralised logging pipeline using AWS CloudTrail + CloudWatch Logs Insights + OpenSearch for tamper-proof audit trails
  • Created compliance-as-code using Open Policy Agent (OPA) to enforce security policies at deploy time
  • Produced the full SOC 2 evidence pack — system description, risk register, control mapping — in collaboration with the client’s auditor

Technical Stack

SAST/SCA: Snyk · Trivy · Secrets: HashiCorp Vault + AWS KMS · Policy: Open Policy Agent · Compliance: AWS Config · AWS Security Hub · Logging: CloudTrail + OpenSearch · IaC: Terraform · CI/CD: GitHub Actions

Outcomes

The client achieved SOC 2 Type II certification in 5.5 months with zero major non-conformities. The security scanning pipeline now catches 80% of vulnerabilities before they reach staging. Two stalled enterprise deals worth $1.2M ARR closed within weeks of the certification. The team independently maintains all controls and runs quarterly evidence collection automatically.