Since the digitization era, cybersecurity is a crucial practise to protect your business and your services. Software applications are complex and they can have lots of different types of security issues, from bad code to misconfigured servers.
How to make deployment process rapid and simultaneously able to generate secure products?
Here’s the birth of DevSecOps, the integration of the security component in the DevOps processes. DevSecOps means that Development, Operations and Security become one thing and that the security function will be present at an early stage of the development process. Indeed, with the growing complexity of cyber attacks and the rapidity with which they can compromise a whole business with often irreparable damage in terms of bad reputation, the current need is to have not just a high quality code, but it must be also secure and protected by a strong architecture.
The DevOps team aims to develop software as quickly as possible, while security team has the purpose of manage risk by controlling accurately any possible security breach into the applications. So DevSecOps approach intends to completely align DevOps and cyber security with the aim to optimize the Risk Management, accelerate the identification of vulnerabilities, automate and orchestrate changes needed in the security chain. With this method, developers have to think about security just from the very beginning and monitor this aspect during all the development cycle, from pre-production to deployment.
With DevSecOps the security function will be integral part of the software development life cycle and will be present in each stage, making safe all the automation processes typical of DevOps method (like continuous integration and continuous delivery) and making security a responsibility shared by all the company, from the earliest stage of work.
