DevSecOps Transformation Bucket List

DevOps’s lightning-fast software development cycles imply traditional security measures can’t keep up. Organizations must include automated and continuous security testing in their software development processes to enhance security. It’s all about making security a part of the DevOps process — DevSecOps. That’s Filling the gap between I.T. and security by incorporating security into every step of the software development lifecycle process Security bottlenecks may be alleviated by using the DevSecOps strategy. It also maintains the high development pace that DevOps allows. This post will share how the DevSecOps framework, activities, process, and challenges during your DevSecOps transformations.

What is DevSecOps?

DevSecOps is the practice of incorporating security and compliance testing into the DevOps pipeline without jeopardizing the speed and agility of continuous delivery. DevSecOps adoption is needed to make software delivery more agile, responsive, and secure. More team collaboration between IT security and the product team (including development and operations) must happen. In the past, the security team worked alone. There were always security and compliance checks done at the end. When you have a faster software delivery cycle with DevOps and more often make software, those checks at the end make it more difficult and slow down the continuous delivery process.

Why Move to DevSecOps?

The increased delivery velocity with a DevOps CI/CD pipeline, particularly with microservices-based applications, is prone to introducing vulnerabilities and making continuous security a major issue in organizations.

Security teams must learn and understand the security implications of all these new technologies to identify issues. The learning curve becomes a significant bottleneck, so automating security checks early in the continuous delivery process, i.e., practising DevSecOps.

DevSecOps Benefits

DevSecOps Metrics

DevSecOps is a proven method for improving the quality and security of software, which can be measured using these metrics:

• Meantime to production: the average time it takes from when new software features are required to when they are up and running.

• Average lead-time: the time it takes to deliver and deploy a new requirement.

• Deployment speed: how quickly DevSecOps can deploy a new application version into production.

• Deployment frequency: the frequency with which DevSecOps can deploy a new release into production.

• Production failure rate: the frequency with which software fails during production.

• Mean time to recovery (MTTR): the time it takes for applications in the production stage to recover from a failure.

Furthermore, DevSecOps practice enables:

• Fully automated risk characterization, monitoring, and mitigation throughout the application lifecycle; and

• Software updates and patching on-demand allows for addressing security vulnerabilities and code flaws.

Four (4) DevSecOps Pillars

The diagram shows that DevSecOps is supported by four pillars: culture, process, technology, and governance.

DevSecOps Lifecycle

The DevSecOps software lifecycle phases. Plan, develop, build, test, release, deliver, deploy, operate, and monitor are the nine (9) phases. Security is implemented in each stage:

The software development lifecycle is not a monolithic linear process with DevSecOps. The Waterfall process’s “big bang” delivery style is replaced with smaller but more frequent deliveries, making it easier to change course as needed. DevSecOps implementation accelerates continuous integration and delivery, and each small delivery is completed through a fully automated or semi-automated process with minimal human intervention. The DevSecOps lifecycle is adaptable and includes numerous feedback loops to ensure continuous improvement.

DevSecOps Framework

The above picture presents a framework for getting started with crucial DevSecOps domains and activities.

DevSecOps Challenges

Get Started

It’s a good idea to move to DevSecOps if your firm is currently using DevOps. As a result, DevSecOps is founded on the DevOps mindset, which will make it easier for you to switch. So you may bring together people with diverse strategic backgrounds to work on improving the security procedures that are already in place. This post just discussed the non-technical of DevSecOps transformation; we will dive deeper into the DevSecOps scanner tool and CI/CD implementation using AWS CodePipeline. I hope to see you back in the next post for the DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline and its tools involved.