Many organizations face the same pattern: few AppSec experts, many developers under high delivery pressure. If security is only addressed shortly before go-live, security problems found too late block planned releases. Highly qualified security experts waste valuable time with low-risk noise from numerous security testing tools instead of focusing on architecture, threat modeling, and truly critical vulnerabilities. The solution is a real shift-left approach in software development. Shifting security expertise to where code is created, automating feedback early, and orchestrating the whole thing centrally. This is exactly why we combine mgm ATLAS as an ASPM platform with consulting, integration and testing from a single source.
Empower developers early, measurably and close to the stack
The goal is not to turn every developer into a security expert. Nevertheless, it is important to avoid or eliminate typical vulnerabilities so early that they do not become blockers in the first place. This can be achieved with compact, stack-related training courses, such as on Secure Coding, DevSecOps and Cloud Security, which bring Early Security Testing into the daily dev flow. Developers need practice with security testing tools from the SCA/SAST/DAST/IAST and IaC categories and must learn to understand their results in the context of their software projects. The result: less rework, fewer context switches, faster releases. Our team training courses are tailored to your technology environment and can take place remotely or on-site.
Guardrails in the Dev-Flow: Feedback where it counts
Instead of “Security at the end”, we set technical guardrails precisely at the edge of the merge into productive code:
- Secrets-Scanning pre-commit/CI.
- Code scans in the pull request (SAST/SCA/IaC) as mandatory status checks before the merge.
- DAST/IAST in short-lived test environments.
We take over the selection & integration of the test suite, CI/CD integration, policy definition and, above all, the result processing: clear ownership, meaningful ticket templates and manageable SLOs, so that findings quickly become fixes.
ASPM as a control center: ATLAS
A tool zoo without orchestration creates alert sprawl and flying blind. Our in-house ASPM solution ATLAS bundles information from your security checks and development teams into a clear picture that enables prioritized work. As a European solution, ATLAS is designed for confidentiality and data protection; it helps to understand in seconds which products are affected in “Log4j moments”. Operation is flexible (Cloud/On-Prem), vendor-independent and at attractive conditions. We deliver PoC, integration into existing workflows and knowledge transfer for the team.
Business effect: You get a continuous chain of “Scan → Context → Prioritization → Ticket → Proof”, instead of isolated tool outputs. Security becomes plannable, scalable and measurable – with a clear picture that engineering and management understand equally.
Rules Instead of Gut Feeling: When to Use Self-Service, When to Use AppSec
Control the handover with ATLAS and clear policies:
- Dev-Self-Service when a Finding occurs in a low-exposure service with low impact, automatically with a context-rich ticket (asset, path, impact information).
- Automatic involvement of AppSec experts as soon as thresholds are exceeded (e.g., internet-exposed, sensitive data, runtime accessibility).
Our consulting translates your risk model into practical rules and integrates it into a process: Your security experts focus on the complex cases; the developers manage the rest.
Measure & scale
For engineering leads, throughput and stability count; for C-level, transparency and predictability. The following have proven effective:
- MTTR per criticality, Fix-Rate before Merge, trend of critical Findings, proportion of PRs with security checks.
- Combine flow metrics from engineering with security KPIs.
Our approach: start lean (one product/one area), ATLAS PoC, pipeline integration. This creates a repeatable security engine without slowing down your delivery pace.
What mgm takes over for you
- ATLAS (ASPM): PoC, integration, operation (Cloud/On-Prem), policies & workflows, a controllable overview instead of tool silos.
- Application Security Enablement: Agile Security & Secure DevOps, Security architecture workshops, Automated application security testing, Secure coding guidelines/playbooks.
- Training & Coaching: Team training courses “DevSecOps: Security in the CI/CD pipeline” and other curated formats, tailored to stack and learning objectives.
- Security Testing on demand: Penetration tests, code analyses, red teaming. Reports with management summary and concrete fix instructions for implementation.
Bottom line: Shift-Left is effective if feedback is early, context-rich, and controllable, and if security experts are active where they make the greatest contribution to risk mitigation. With ATLAS as the control center and mgm security partners as the implementation partner, isolated checks become a sustainable security strategy that transforms Findings into rapid fixes without sacrificing your Release pace.
