Shifting to the left – DevSecOps

The billion-dollar idea of the DevOps philosophy is to bring people together – all disciplines, including Ops, Devs, and Quality Assurance (QA). Organizations should make it clear where silos are raised among all product contributors. That should include the security discipline in their agile ways of working. The 2021 State of DevSecOps study (https://www.securitycompass.com/reports/2021-state-of-devsecops/) elaborated by Security Compass, a cybersecurity consultancy services provider, shows that 75% of responders (IT professionals and DevOps practitioners) agreed that security slows down the processes of product releases, leading to an increase in the time to market. That goes against what DevOps was created for. Focusing on speed to market might skip the security aspect. This sacrifice has triggered some scary numbers in some large enterprises, where there was an increase in the volume of data breaches or the number of cybersecurity...