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The fast-paced environment of DevSecOps requires integrating security at every stage of software development to ensure secure, compliant applications. Traditional methods of security testing, often performed late in the development cycle, are insufficient to address the unique challenges of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, particularly in complex, high-stakes sectors such as industrial automation. In this paper, we propose an approach that automates the analysis and testing of security requirements by embedding requirements verification into the CI/CD pipeline. Our method employs the ARQAN tool to map high-level security requirements to Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) using semantic search, and RQCODE to formalize these requirements as code, providing testable and enforceable security guidelines.We implemented ARQAN and RQCODE within a CI/CD framework, integrating them with GitHub Actions for realtime security checks and automated compliance verification. Our approach supports established security standards like IEC 62443 and automates security assessment starting from the planning phase, enhancing the traceability and consistency of security practices throughout the pipeline. Evaluation of this approach in collaboration with an industrial automation company shows that it effectively covers critical security requirements, achieving automated compliance for 66.15% of STIG guidelines relevant to the Windows 10 platform. Feedback from industry practitioners further underscores its practicality, as 85% of security requirements mapped to concrete STIG recommendations, with 62% of these requirements having matching testable implementations in RQCODE. This evaluation highlights the approach’s potential to shift security validation earlier in the development process, contributing to a more resilient and secure DevSecOps lifecycle.

This paper studies a model of a population with non-overlapping generations and density-dependent regulation of birth rate. The population breeds seasonally, and its reproductive potential is determined genetically. The model proposed combines an ecological dynamic model of a limited population with non-overlapping generations and microevolutionary model of its genetic structure dynamics for the case when adaptive trait of birth rate controlled by a single diallelic autosomal locus with allelomorphs A and a. The study showed the genetic composition of the population, namely, will it be polymorphic or monomorphic, is mainly determined by the values of the reproductive potentials of heterozygote and homozygotes. Moreover, the average reproductive potential of mature individuals and intensity of self-regulation processes determine population dynamics. In particularly, increasing the average value of the reproductive potential leads to destabilization of the dynamics of age group sizes. The intensity of self-regulation processes determines the nature of emerging oscillations, since scenario of stability loss of fixed points depends on the values of this parameter. It is shown that patterns of occurrence and evolution of cyclic dynamics regimes are mainly determined by the features of life cycle of individuals in population. The life cycle leading to existence of non-overlapping generation gives isolated subpopulations in different years, which results in the possibility of independent microevolution of these subpopulations and, as a result, the complex dynamics emergence of both stage structure and genetic one. Fixing various adaptive mutations will gradually lead to genetic (and possibly morphological) differentiation and to differences in the average reproductive potentials of subpopulations that give different values of equilibrium subpopulation sizes. Further evolutionary growth of reproductive potentials of limited subpopulations leads to their number fluctuations which can differ in both amplitude and phase.