DevSecOps principles
DevSecOps practices concentrate on splitting down silos, enhancing collaboration, and, last but not least, changing security to integrate it early in the development process before moving on to production. Let’s deep dive into some key principles of DevSecOps:
- Unifying the CI/CD pipeline
- Fail fast automation
- Empowering teams to make decisions
- Cross-skilling and educating teams
- Proper documentation
- Relevant checkpoints
- Building and managing secure dev environments and toolchains
Let’s look at them in detail.
Unifying the CI/CD pipeline
The sooner we can unify the CI/CD pipeline’s needs, the earlier we can enforce security controls. At the same time, we should ensure we understand what is needed in the whole pipeline – that is, tools, technology, and processes. We need to have appropriate controls in place for the pipeline and make sure everyone is aligned with them.
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