SecDevOps Becomes the Extended Security Version of DevSecOps Platform
Cyber threats are rapidly growing and making businesses victims of it. Therefore, businesses need cybersecurity solutions to restrict cyber threats from entering into their business network.
Therefore, a new security approach is extracted from the new SDLC proposed by DevSecOps, also known as SecDevOps. It directly implements security modules in the development and deployment pipeline and reduces security vulnerabilities.
This article contains essential information about the SecDevOps platform, from introduction to its benefits.
Introduction to SecDevOps:
DevOps benefits organizations with its fast, robust, and automated manner; however, its brisk development of SDLC comes with few security loopholes, which can set its limitations to provide security across the software.
SecDevOps is a group of security best practices, integrating security measures directly into the development and deployment process, also known as the “Rugged DevOps”. This platform helps developers to think about security standards while developing applications. This early integration of security measures into the app development helps developers maintain security standards with the pace of the DevOps deployment approach.
Basically, SecDevOps is distributed in two distinct parts, shown as following:
Security as Code (SaC):
SecDevOps allows developers to build Security as Code into the DevOps pipeline through tools and practices, which assures the security vulnerabilities scans by SAST and DAST tools helping in Static and Dynamic Application Security Testing. SecDevOps is still a DevOps platform focusing on automating processes rather than keeping them manual. SecDevOps Security as Code is an integral part of the DevOps platform, and the tools that developers use must be compatible with its Continuous Delivery Pipeline/framework.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
SecDevOps Infrastructure as Code part uses some DevOps tools, such as Puppet, Chef, and Ansible, to implement and upgrade each element of the infrastructure and make robust and managed release environments. Instead of making configuration changes each time, IaC uses the same code configuration or development rules to manage entire infrastructure operations. In simple terms, IaC helps to deploy servers entirely controlled by configurations rather than patching each loophole and updating releases frequently.
SecDevOps utilizes automated security testing from the initial phase of product development to detect security flaws across the software development lifecycle.
Benefits of SecDevOps:
- Provides efficient security with speed and agile DevOps operations
- Dynamically responds to the security issues and needs
- Provides better team collaboration platform
- Creates new opportunities to automate the application development process with quality and security operations
- Detects security flaws as soon as they arise
- Automates almost all high-value tasks once the configuration requirements are set
In SecDevOps, the DevOps engineers have to define the necessary build policies at the initial stage, including coding criteria, testing compliances, norms for various security analyses, encryption and security standards, and many others. In this coding criteria, the SecDevOps team can design manual intervention on the authorization and other critical security portions.
If SecDevOps finds any vulnerability in the development during the testing process, it alerts the security engineers right away to take further actions to improve the process.
The root issues analysis helps developers build and update required security measures and standards’ improvements. In simple terms, this iterative improvement triggers after each development cycle and provides less disruptive development cycle escalations.
Conclusion:
SecDevOps platform fills the security gaps of the growing security threats with its emerging security solutions compared to DevOps and DevSecOps platforms. Many organizations think that DevSecOps and SecDevOps are the same platforms, but they are not. While DevSecOps integrates the security policy after each development phase, SecDevOps tends to integrate security policy before starting the development process. Further, it can look out for security errors as early as possible and deploy a modern defensive cyber security solution against malicious actors.
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