We are now more focused on security than ever. In many situations, security is the only way to win customer focus. DevSecOps is about the automation of security and implementation of security at scale. The development team is always making changes and the DevOps team is publishing them in production (changes are often customer-facing). DevSecOps is required to ensure application security in the overall process.

DevSecOps is not there to audit code or CI/CD artifacts. Organizations should implement DevSecOps to enable speed and agility, but not at the expense of validating security. The power of automation is to increase product-feature-launch agility while remaining secure by implementing the required security measures. A DevSecOps approach results in built-in security and is not applied as an afterthought. DevOps is about adding efficiency to speed up the product launch life cycle, while DevSecOps validates all building blocks without slowing the life cycle.

To institute a DevSecOps approach in your organization, start with a solid DevOps foundation across the development environment, as security is everyone's responsibility. To create collaboration between development and security teams, you should embed security in the architecture design from inception. To avoid any security gaps, automate continuous security testing and build it into the CI/CD pipeline. To keep track of any security breach, apply to extend monitoring to include security and compliance by monitoring for drift from the design state in real time. Monitoring should enable alerting, automated remediation, and removing non-compliant resources.

Codifying everything is a basic requirement that opens up infinite possibilities. The goal of DevSecOps is to keep the pace of innovation, which should meet the pace of security automation. A scalable infrastructure needs scalable security, so it requires automatic incident response remediation to implement continuous compliance and validation.