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Sapna T
Sapna T

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DevSecOps – Incorporating The 10 Best Security Practices Of The Industry

In recent years, many software firms are turning towards the use of DevOps Services to build their applications. DevOps has been providing a much faster time for the marketing of the software. It provides a platform for deploying applications in the cloud environment i.e., Cloud DevOps. There are many companies that provide Cloud DevOps Security consultation. So the vulnerabilities that lie within the software are exposed, which initiates the necessity of a security strategy to be implemented for the application development right from its early stages, and not just at the end to prevent & overcome any of the unanticipated problems. Now, with the use of DevOps for software development, novel strategies need to be in place to embed security aspects in the development to ensure that the software is not vulnerable to the various attacks by hackers or malicious users. So, the answer that software developers are looking for is DevSecOps.

DevSecOps – For the Filling of the Gaps between IT & the Security!

DevSecOps is about including security from the early stages of the application development life cycle rather than the last stages, minimizing the vulnerabilities and bringing security closer to IT and business objectives. Basically, DevSecOps means parallel activities of development, security, and operations, making everyone accountable for the implementation of security strategies. DevSecOps is about collaboration mainly. This is an objective to fill the gaps between security teams & developers and the DevOps teams for ensuring a smooth as well as secured deployment & development procedure. The integration of security into the DevOps framework can be completed smoothly using the proper DevSecOps tools and processes.

The 6 Important Components of a DevSecOps Approach

Analyse the code in small chunks for any possible vulnerabilities and errors so that they can be fixed quickly.

Ask for changes from all the people working on the project, allowing efficiency, and later find out whether the change is good or not.

Another aspect is of compliance monitoring, wherein, one has to be ready for the audits at any given point of time.

One more important component of a DevSecOps approach is to identify the potential threats emerging with the code updates, and to be capable of responding to them quickly.

Identify and assess new vulnerabilities by analysing the new part of the code and fix them.

Train the team to deal with the situations that lead to vulnerabilities and the security measures that have to be used to overcome the crisis.

Read How to implement DevSecOps

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