Summary

In today’s software landscape, security is crucial not only for the financial, social media, and e-commerce sectors but for all industries. With evolving software practices and cloud adoption, the complexity and risks associated with modern applications have increased significantly. These risks, often beyond the control of development teams, can have severe consequences, including reputational damage, information loss, and loss of customer trust. An important concept that helps us address these requirements while ensuring more collaboration among developers, operations, and security team members is DevSecOps.

We started this chapter by introducing what DevSecOps is and the benefits it offers. Similar to DevOps, it is not just about technical optimizations but also promotes the idea of shared responsibility between developers, operations, and security. This ensures that any new risks that the applications might be exposed to are mitigated as soon as possible. After...