Applied Security Research & Automated Defense Tooling
Bridging software engineering and security operations through practical research, automated auditing, and developer-first security checks.
About SourceSecured
SourceSecured is a security engineering practice focused on building automated solutions for cloud posture, CI/CD pipeline security, and AI application risk evaluation.
Modern engineering teams ship code faster than manual security reviews can keep up. When security checks exist solely outside the development lifecycle, misconfigurations, exposed credentials, and identity gaps inevitably slip through to production.
Instead of treating security as a manual checklist, our research focuses on embedding automated verification directly into everyday engineering workflows. By mapping automated scanners and policy checks to established standards like CIS Benchmarks and MITRE ATT&CK, security becomes measurable and repeatable.
From auditing AWS cloud environments and enforcing pre-commit secret detection to testing LLM applications against adversarial prompt injection, SourceSecured builds and documents practical defense tooling from the ground up.
"Effective security engineering starts with understanding how systems are built and how they fail. SourceSecured focuses on turning threat research into automated, repeatable controls."
Core Research Principles
The methodology guiding our tooling, testing, and security evaluations
Shift-Left Verification
Security controls belong directly inside CI/CD workflows and pre-commit hooks so vulnerabilities are caught before merge.
Framework-Aligned Checks
Every automated check is grounded in established standards including CIS Benchmarks, MITRE ATT&CK, and NIST CSF.
Practical Threat Testing
We validate defenses against real attack patterns, from cloud configuration drift to adversarial LLM prompt payloads.
Clear Risk Reporting
Security findings should be actionable and readable for engineers, pairing severity scores with concrete remediation steps.
Automation Over Manual Triage
Repetitive auditing belongs in Python scripts and automated pipelines rather than manual spreadsheets.
Least-Privilege by Default
Whether scoping cloud IAM roles, API tokens, or AI agent permissions, access should always be tightly bounded.
Engineering Meets Security
Combining full-stack software development roots with hands-on cloud auditing, identity governance, and threat research.
Our Focus
SourceSecured approaches security from a builder's perspective. By combining software engineering experience with cloud security auditing and identity access management, we focus on designing controls that integrate cleanly into modern development pipelines.
Our work spans automated AWS posture scanning, static and infrastructure-as-code analysis in CI/CD, OAuth2 and RBAC enforcement patterns, and red-team evaluation of large language model applications.
Core Tooling & Technologies
The languages, cloud services, and security scanners powering our research and workflows
Cloud & Infrastructure
Security & CI/CD Gates
Languages & Testing
Identity & Auth
Frameworks & AI Risk
Web & APIs
Connect With SourceSecured
Reach out regarding our cloud security tooling, CI/CD research, or vulnerability testing methodology.