Understanding the shift from DevOps to DevSecOps
Picture DevOps as a dynamic duo of superhero teams, with developers and operations joining forces to save the business world. Their mission? Pumping out awesome apps and updates to wow the crowd. But then, DevSecOps enters the scene – a supercharged version of our dynamic duo. This time, they’ve got a new sidekick: security (Sec). By weaving Sec into the mix, we’re not just cranking out cool features; we’re making sure they’re as safe as a bank vault.
DevSecOps is an extension of DevOps. DevSecOps was introduced to increase the speed of DevOps. By integrating security into DevOps processes, operations teams were motivated and measured to stabilize production to meet service-level agreements (SLAs). It was about making new changes, but they needed to be made quickly. This made it look like a lot of things were being left behind.
In recent years, many organizations have evolved their DevOps practices to address their business challenges more successfully. DevOps is a contemporary method for meeting the demands of the business by delivering applications more quickly and of higher quality. DevOps now spans the entire enterprise, affecting processes and data flows and bringing about significant organizational changes. This differs from the past, where it was primarily concerned with just putting the IT services for applications in place.
DevOps continues to gain momentum and evolve every passing day. New technologies are being included as part of it.
The initial idea was to make sure that the communication gap between different teams during development processes could be removed. The communication gap has always been a huge challenge for organizations. Development teams work on developing the features needed by the organization, while the operations team works to make sure the application is working smoothly. At the same time, Sec comes into the picture and becomes a big bottleneck as soon as we talk about embedding security in the different phases of development. It opens up a can of worms that never ends.
We are now observing the adoption of many of the techniques that are used by developers to support more agile and responsive processes. This aids organizations in determining their current situation and possible future directions. The most crucial component of any process or technology is people. Even with the best processes and technologies, results are impossible to achieve without people.
Since we’re talking about DevSecOps, it starts with DevOps, which involves quickly delivering higher-quality software by combining and automating the work of software development, IT operations teams, project managers, and everyone working around the development pipeline. If an organization is willing to move toward DevSecOps from its traditional model, it needs to have DevOps in place. That’s contradictory to earlier development models.
Rather than relying on human intervention, the process aids in monitoring the security workflow. Additionally, it enhances our ability to identify security flaws in the ecosystem. Employees may feel replaced by automation in this way, which could make them resent giving up their current level of administrator authority. To get around the bottlenecks in the software development and deployment process, mostly on the ops side, the initial plan was to simply de-silo dev and ops.
