Point Base: Securing 1k+ Monthly Pipelines & Cutting CI/CD Overhead with Plumber

Company Profile

• Expertise: DevSecOps & Cloud Consultancy
• Scale: 1,500+ Repositories | ~1,000 Monthly Pipelines
• Stack: GitLab Self-Managed & SaaS

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Executive Summary

Point Base is a premier French tech consultancy specializing in DevSecOps. They are the “hands-on” experts that organizations trust to build secure, automated infrastructures for high-stakes environments.

The Mission: Bridging Delivery & Security

Point Base excels where standard solutions fall short, focusing on:

• Strategic Architecture: Tailored, scalable infrastructures.
• Compliance Leadership: Navigating regulations like the ISO 27001 & CRA (Cyber Resilience Act).
• Developer Experience: Removing security friction to maintain velocity.

« We are both a consulting firm and a software publisher. With Plumber, we empower our clients to achieve ‘Security by Design’ while enabling our developers to build compliant pipelines effortlessly. It transforms compliance from a manual burden into an automated, auditable process. »

🎯 The Challenge: Scaling Governance without Friction

As DevSecOps leaders, Point Base must guarantee absolute security across 1,500+ repositories and +1,000 CI/CD pipelines.

The Hurdle: Scaling led to an explosion of Shadow CI/CD, turning GitLab instances into “black boxes.” Unmonitored DIY pipelines and bypassed security gates created a high-risk environment where standards were invisible. Point Base had to eliminate this security debt and restore cross-functional governance—without sacrificing developer velocity or hiring an army of auditors.

🔄 The Transformation: From Policing to Automation

Point Base ditched the burden of custom scripts and manual reviews for automated governance—shifting their experts from “pipeline policing” to high-value innovation.

The Old Way: High Risk, High Effort

• 🔴 Blind Spots: Manual CI reviews and settings checks fail to scale across 1,500 repos.
• 🔴 Shadow CI Tax: Punctual, manual drift detection creates a massive operational drain.
• 🔴 No Guarantees: Lack of automated tracking makes real-time compliance impossible to prove.

The Plumber Way: Continuous Trust, without overhead

• 🟢 Zero-Overhead Visibility: Automated tracking detects Shadow CI without any engineering effort.
• 🟢 Audit-Ready, Always: Self-generating evidence for ISO 27001/CRA eliminates manual gathering.
• 🟢 Strategic Reallocation: Security experts focus on architecture instead of hunting for drifts.

💡 Impact: Security by Design, Scaled.

Point Base has replaced manual policing with continuous, invisible governance. They have eliminated the overhead of managing 1,500+ repositories, ensuring that each of their 1,000+ monthly pipelines is a trusted path to production.

No tax, no friction — just secure code at scale.