Your Frictionless DevSecOps Solution

DevOps emerged as a change in culture and practices that sought to optimize how developers and operations teams worked together. In order to avoid the traditional silos that each team worked in where software was written without any operational considerations, DevOps involved changing both tools and processes to ensure that dev and ops team worked together early on, with a particular focus on automation of the release process.. The success of the movement allowed companies to ship software faster and more reliably.

Initially, security was not a goal of the DevOps movement, but once good practices were established it was clear that security could also be brought into the fold and use the same automated systems. DevSecOps then emerged as a term. 

Currently, the two terms are often used interchangeably reflecting that fact that security is now assumed to be a given in modern software development practices.

Automation in DevSecOps is useful and important. While in the traditional DevOps program there will be a heavy focus on Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, in the DevSecOps space there is room for automating security. Technologies now exist to detect certain security errors. For example, open source dependencies can now be scanned for security vulnerabilities.

There are three primary benefits of DevSecOps:

•  Save cost and time. With DevSecOps you incorporate automated security gates into existing software development workflows which provides a savings of cost and time.
• Better collaboration among teams. By bringing security into the conversation as early as possible, and promoting collaboration with development and operations teams, developers now see security as an enabler, not an impediment.
• Faster response to changing customer needs. Being able to rapidly respond to changes in the marketplace or in developing and shipping software products to end-users is critical. DevSecOps enables this and helps teams adapt when new changes are published.