DevSecOps: The New Security Focused Enhancement to DevOps Approach
DevSecOps: The New Security Focused Enhancement to DevOps Approach by Nathan McKinley
In recent years, we have seen the IT infrastructure to undergo massive changes. DevSecOps approach has been at the forefront of these changes. By combining both the development and operations team, DevOps helped to scale up and speed up the process. Apart from boosting efficiency and speed, this has played a significant role in strengthening stability. DevOps approach has been particularly beneficial for apps releasing features frequently.
In spite of all these positive aspects, the security aspect of an app has largely remained underserved. This is why DevSecOps has emerged as the most promising and value-driven methodology incorporating security at the product lifecycle besides development and operations components. DevSecOps has already been known to reduce security vulnerabilities while reaping the same advantages of integrating development and operations just as in DevOps.
DevSecOps: Integrating Security with DevOps
When it comes to the integration of security with the DevOps, it boasts of a different approach corresponding to both processes and tools. In the already agile development methodology of DevOps, the collaborative inputs of security experts will only help to enhance the security safeguards for the project. This approach will make security as silent and effective as possible while keeping the seamless and agile nature of DevOps methodology intact.
As of now, the takers of the DevSecOps approach have been very few in numbers, while most development companies by embracing DevOps approach are ready to reap the agile development benefits from a collaborative environment comparison growth professionals from both app developers and operations team. The need of the hour is to make them understand about the significance of security in the product life cycle and the way security experts can enhance the security safeguards from the very early stage of the product development.