The Critical Role of Security in Implementation of DevSecOps

1. The Critical Role of Security in Implementation of DevSecOps

2. The lethal combination of social, mobile, analytics, and cloud has been a real game-changer in the way customers consume content, communicate, and select products & services. • This has resulted in organisations taking a different route to bring products & services in the market quickly. • This makes enterprises quickly adapt their applications, which has changed the way businesses are conducted. • At the same time, cybersecurity threat is largely looming, where hacking has become quite easy. Some groups use sophisticated tools and software frameworks that can make their task more accessible, which has resulted in attacks that are more organised and sophisticated. • There are also new devices that are coming up that has made speed a critical component. Here, DevOps has become a vital enabler required to develop and release applications at digital speeds.

3. With the help of DevSecOps, it is possible to integrate security into the DevOps approach seamlessly. Enov8 has created a four-step process to incorporate application security into DevOps. • Our approach is based on our exclusive journey of IT test environment, which has led us to gather experience that has become vital in securely developing applications for hundreds of businesses across the globe. • This collaborative approach gives impetus to the business value by providing a secure and high-quality application to business users at a rapid pace than a traditional, less collaborative approach. Let’s now look at the process through the steps given below.

4. Define the Culture • Recognising the need for culture change is exceptionally critical to adopt this process successfully. • There needs to be a shift in the thinking and evolution in the way teams work to get the best results for the business. Typically, development teams concentrate on delivering new application features as soon as possible. They do not give a thought towards the security and reliability of the application. • On the other hand, operation teams concentrate on stability and reliability, with less contemplation on the speed of delivery. And the application security teams focusing mainly on reducing risk. DevSecOps address these conflicting goals. It enables development, security, and operation teams to work in unison with the common goal to deliver high-quality value by building, testing, and releasing a stable and high-quality application. Here, swift delivery of business value makes you gain brownie points. However, everyone in the value chain is equally responsible for the security and reliability of the end product.

5. Merge the Processes

6. Normally organisations treat application development comprising of release management and application security as two distinct processes. • This can result in inaccuracies and inconsistency and can even have a disastrous effect on communication and collaboration within & between the teams. • With the help of a single, end-to-end process, it helps the team to work as a collective unit and decipher areas where automation can be applied to get the best results in the shortest time possible. Enhance Automation • Once you have addressed the culture change and defined the integrated process, the next step is to ascertain parts of the process that can be automated to get consistency, quality, and speed. • Automation is necessary; however, for that, you have to document the pipeline, which can serve as a roadmap to guide in the automation engineering effort.

7. Increased Visibility • The last step is to increase the information visibility of the business. Collect all the information throughout the stages of the software lifecycle for different projects and then scrutinise the effectiveness of the process. • You can even capture application security testing information with the help of a centralised dashboard. This can prove to be decisive to monitor risks and find out the latest trends for the development and security managers. • The information obtained can come in handy for the development managers to plan on how to reduce the security threats from the inception and find out the effectiveness of the training. • This information can even be used as a benchmark to measure the effectiveness of the security controls used in the development process.

8. Conclusion Enterprises are quick to recognise the need to adopt DevSecOps to create highly secure applications with a top speed. The key is to use a proven approach that gives equal preference to people, processes, and technology in ensuring a collaborative culture.

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