DevSecOps Best Practices Guide

DevOps involves integrating development, testing, deployment, and release cycles into a collaborative process. Security is often considered an afterthought, to be inserted just before release. Having the forethought to integrate security throughout the DevOps cycles is known as DevSecOps; and it involves intelligence, situational awareness, and collaboration.

Browse the internet, and you’ll see who makes headlines: hackers, incompetent or disgruntled employees, and unsecured devices and apps brought in through shadow IT. However, the biggest culprit of all is poorly executed change management. Change management policies and procedures apply processes that can help prevent problems downstream including downtime, system slowdowns, and damage to your customers and partners. Poor change management can also cut you off from your own data, seriously challenging your ability to identify the root cause of your issues.

When groups can’t respond in a timely manner because they lack situational awareness, the consequences include a lack of accountability, slow incident identification, and poor response times. And if the issues were real, the consequences could be catastrophic. Customers could lose faith in the company, hours of downtime carry a financial price, and let’s not forget the public relations nightmare and potential for customer churn.

To optimize business, you have to build an effective DevSecOps infrastructure that’s committed to its goals, and collaborative enough that all levels of your organization feel empowered to do their best work, maintain service reliability, and preserve data.