Embrace DevSecOps to Enable Standardization and Automation of Security Across Infrastructure

Embrace DevSecOps to Enable Standardization and Automation of Security Across Infrastructure

Introduction

The pandemic has taught us that a decision-maker today has little room to go wrong in security aspects. Various governments, institutions, researchers used technology to provide urgent help, medical advice and create life-saving medicines. Imagine, if the security were compromised in their processes, how much would impact the all-important goal of saving more lives! This alone highlights the importance of integrating security in our software development life cycle. The rapid use of technology worldwide has magnified the value of aligning security and DevOps and operating with a DevSecOps philosophy. This is resulting in policy-as-code to codify security governance and compliance rules that enable automation.

Security Needs Automation

Today, companies want to take their products to the market fast; hence, security should be embedded into the cycle. This means that giving the security team a seat on the table when development work starts rather than later is a good idea. Thus, by ensuring that we break the silos between development, operations, and security, we consider the market’s demands. Market adaptation to a product is fast if it meets their expectations, so it makes sense to release a robust product in security. It is more cumbersome and costly to integrate security later in the software development life cycle.

The way the industry has evolved in the last few years, for the finance and retail industry where data security is critical, it is necessary that decision-makers delight the users with secure-at-launch products. We require minimized security risks in all domains as failure in this aspect can be pretty dangerous.

In the current situation, the role of the software industry has become more critical as it drives economic recovery at a very crucial juncture in the world. The heightened use of software products across continents means that new users are available aplenty, but concurrent with this growth in usage is also the rise in security disruptors. What can be done to minimize these security disruptions?

DevSecOps - Approach and Methodology

DevSecOps is the philosophy that is necessary to navigate this reality. DevSecOps will enable developers to integrate security issues as they code. This is much better than finding out that the developed software product is not smoothly aligned with the security team’s framework. With the speed at which releases are happening, security teams can upfront flag issues to the developers, thereby saving valuable time. Moreover, the security teams can begin to iterate early on rather than wait till the end of the development cycle. This optimization of security, development, and operations is valuable as lapses can be expensive.

Conclusion

Holistic DevSecOps is suitable for a world that wants agility, scale, and to avoid costly downtimes. Suppose developers are using dated systems to code that would encounter security bottlenecks. In that case, DevSecOps can step in to prevent such occasions and help the development and operations teams do valuable course correction early on. This approach makes security actions repeatable and automated and would be much less time-consuming than undertaking security assessments after the developers have completed their work cycle. By embracing DevSecOps, we can standardize and automate security in our infrastructure. Get a head start in security by adopting the DevSecOps philosophy.