Transforming secure development into a competitive advantage

In a highly regulated environment such as insurance, cybersecurity is not just a technical requirement: it is a strategic pillar.

Our client, one of the leading companies in the sector in Peru, faced a complex challenge: Strengthen security in their mobile applications (iOS and Android), without slowing down the continuous delivery of value to the business.

Development teams needed real-time visibility into vulnerabilities, dependency risks, and exposed secrets, but without sacrificing speed or productivity. The existing pipelines on GitHub and Azure DevOps had limitations that made it difficult to integrate security in an automated and effective manner.

That's when CleverIt, as a strategic partner of GitHub, proposed a solution based on GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) that transformed customer processes from the ground up.

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From proof of concept to a paradigm shift

CleverIT's proposal was clear: to use the power of GHAS to build a security layer “by design” within the development lifecycle. The proof of concept (PoC) included:

• Activation of Code Scanning (CodeQL), Secret Scanning and Dependabot in mobile repositories.
• Advanced integration with Azure DevOps, allowing security reports generated on GitHub to feed directly into CI/CD pipelines.
• Post-compilation CodeQL execution, ensuring that the analyzed code was compilable and relevant, reducing false positives.
• Automation of critical alerts and configuration of policies that would allow pipelines to be stopped when defined risk thresholds were exceeded.

This approach allowed our client to move towards a real DevSecOps model, where security is a native component of development and not a later stage.

The success of the project was made possible by the joint work between CleverIt, the customer's technical team and GitHub support. Complex challenges were addressed, such as the integration between GitHub and Azure DevOps, the limited coverage of GHAS in CocoaPods, and the peculiarities of Xcode builds.

CleverIT not only solved each of these challenges, but it also generated troubleshooting sessions and continuous support to ensure effective knowledge transfer. The results were empowered teams, stable flows, and a GHAS implementation ready to scale.

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Automated security, tangible results

Thanks to this implementation, our customer was able to:

• Repositories protected with continuous analysis of code, secrets and dependencies.
• Automated pipelines that stop builds in the face of critical risks, without manual intervention.
• Significant reduction in credential exposure in their mobile applications.
• Executive visibility into the state of security throughout the development process.

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And the most relevant thing: after the success of the PoC, the customer made the strategic decision to fully migrate to GitHub Advanced Security, making this implementation an emblematic success story for the GitHub ecosystem in the region.

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GitHub + CleverIt: an alliance that empowers organizations

This project is a clear example of the impact that can be generated when a powerful platform like GitHub is combined with a specialized, committed and close partner like CleverIt.

From strategy to execution, CleverIt acted as a key enabler for our client not only to solve their current challenges, but to will lay the foundations for a secure, scalable development model aligned with business requirements.

At CleverIT, we believe that the future of secure development is built with strong alliances, shared vision and world-class technology. And together with GitHub, we're helping organizations like our client's lead that path.

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