DevSecOps Guide

DevSecOps is the DevOps community’s approach to bringing security into the development lifecycle. Businesses want to deliver software, but cannot afford to release unreliable or insecure applications— therefore security needs to be baked in much sooner than it has traditionally been.

DevSecOps shifts security ‘left’ to find and fix vulnerabilities earlier in the software development life cycle. It includes the benefits of DevOps such as developing, deploying and delivering new features at a rapid pace, but it also provides a more proactive approach to identifying and addressing bug in real time to bring security risks significantly down.

Just like DevOps, culture will remain a barrier to a successful DevSecOps solution. In addition to bringing the developers and operation teams together, now they need to figure out how to work with the security team towards the same goals and objectives. Bringing the security team in sooner will help them understand the code and work with the development team in a more productive manner.

How to get DevSecOps right DevOps and security teams are learning how to work together, albeit somewhat awkwardly in these early days of DevSecOps. One reason why it can be difficult to get the partnership “right” is that people define DevSecOps in different ways. AppSec vs. DevSecOps, and what that means for developers Traditional application security is different in two key ways from what has come to be known as DevSecOps. First, modern software companies are integrating application security into their DevOps pipelines, so security becomes part of the flow. Second, it’s also about DevOps being built into application security. Putting developers into application security Making security easy for developers, in their preferred tools, while still generating reports for the CISO is a challenge many organizations face today, when the reality is that late-stage security approaches can’t plug vulnerabilities deep within applications.

Ox Security emerges from stealth with $34M to provide end-to-end software supply chain security

Tel Aviv, Israel, September 29, 2022 — Ox Security, the end-to-end software supply chain security platform for DevSecOps, exited stealth today with $34M in funding led by Evolution Equity Partners, Team8, and M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, with participation from Rain Capital. OX was founded less than a year ago by Neatsun Ziv and Lior Arzi, … continue reading

CloudBees acquires ReleaseIQ to expand DevSecOps offerings

CloudBees acquired the ReleaseIQ DevOps Platform to expand the company’s DevSecOps capabilities and to empower customers with a low-code, end-to-end release orchestration and visibility solution. The SaaS offering enables DevOps organizations to compose and analyze workflows, and also orchestrate a combination of CI/CD technologies including Jenkins without the need to migrate or replace. “The decision … continue reading

Traceable AI introduces API Security Testing

The API security and observability company, Traceable AI, today announced that its API Security Testing solution in its API Security Platform is now generally available. This allows users to test any API in pre-production for vulnerabilities, accuracy, reliability, and security. According to the company, this release ensures that all APIs are aligned with the highest … continue reading

Copado introduces new DevSecOps training module

Copado, the low-code DevOps company, today launched a new DevSecOps training module in order to make software releases faster and more secure. The module is currently available in the Copado Community. “Without DevSecOps best practices, software releases can be plagued with quality and security issues, costing more time and money post-production to correct them,” said … continue reading

Checkmarx API Security released to shift API security left

Checkmarx API Security was launched to empower the partnership between the developer and AppSec teams of an organization and is delivered as part of the Checkmarx One application security platform. Because APIs are used to access data and to call application functionality, they are easily exposed but difficult to defend which creates a large and … continue reading

Snyk introduces new cloud security solution

The developer security company, Snyk, today announced the launch of its comprehensive cloud security solution, Snyk Cloud. This extends the company’s existing developer security platform, enabling more organizations to embrace DevSecOps and facilitate collaboration between developers, operations, security, and compliance teams. According to Snyk, this release allows global developers to take full ownership of their … continue reading

New study shows 20x increase in security scan cadence

As security continues to shift left and DevSecOps efforts expand, software security best practices are rapidly evolving. The State of Software Security Report conducted by the application security company Veracode, showed that on average, organizations are running scans on their apps 20 times more than they were just 10 years ago. With this, the report … continue reading

Security perimeter is no more as attack surface continues to expand

For a long time, security teams have been able to mostly rely on the safety of a security perimeter, but with things like IoT, embedded development, and now remote and hybrid work, this notion of a defensible perimeter is totally gone. Having all of these connected devices that don’t live under one network expands the … continue reading

A guide to DevSecOps tools

The following is a listing of DevSecOps tool providers, along with a brief description of their offerings. Bridgecrew by Prisma Cloud automates security from code to cloud. By embedding earlier in the DevOps lifecycle, Bridgecrew enables developers to write secure code without slowing them down. In addition to its DevSecOps tools and integrations, Bridgecrew’s platform … continue reading

How these companies help organizations with DevSecOps

We asked these tool providers to share more information on how their solutions help companies with security in remote or hybrid settings. Their responses are below. Guy Eisenkot, VP of product and co-founder of Bridgecrew by Prisma Cloud As hybrid work environments and cloud infrastructure environments become the norm, organizations’ attack surfaces are only getting … continue reading

Solving the challenges of shifting security left

Amidst the “Shift Left and Extend Right” security trend, developers find themselves needing to implement more robust security practices into their processes. Idan Plotnik, co-founder and CEO of Apiiro, provider of an application risk management platform, discussed the ways in which developers can mitigate critical security risks in order to better protect themselves and their … continue reading

Changing developers’ approach in Generation DevSecOps

The various trends around software development: small team sizes, faster velocity and the styles of building software are here to stay and organizations will need a new way in which to train their developers. This is according to Pete Chestna, CISO of North America at Checkmarx, in the SD Times Live! on-demand webinar “Cloud Engineering … continue reading