DevSecOps
DevSecOps is the practice of integrating security verification into the software delivery process rather than applying it as a separate review at the end.
What is devsecops?
DevSecOps is the practice of integrating security verification into the software delivery process rather than applying it as a separate review at the end.
Plain and technical
Security used to be a review that happened once the software was built, which meant problems were found when they were most expensive to fix and the review became something teams tried to route around. DevSecOps builds the checks into the delivery process so problems surface while they are still cheap.
DevSecOps implements security controls at multiple enforcement points: dependency and image scanning in the pipeline, infrastructure-as-code checks before apply, admission control in the cluster, and continuous posture evaluation at runtime. Findings are prioritised by environmental exposure rather than severity score alone and routed to the owning team with verified closure.
What it looks like in practice
Nearby vocabulary
DevOps
DevOps is a way of working in which the people who build software share responsibility for running it, with automation that makes small change safe.
Shift left
Shift left means moving a verification activity earlier in the delivery process so problems are found while they are still cheap to fix.
Vulnerability management
Vulnerability management is the continuous process of identifying security weaknesses, ranking them by real risk, fixing them and verifying the fix.
Software bill of materials
A software bill of materials is a machine-readable inventory of every component and dependency contained in a piece of software, including versions.
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