5 Rules for accomplishing a successful DevSecOps
by Eshwar Natarajan in Apps/DevOps, General
The intricacies of modern hybrid or cloud environments require an approach that is agile, highly secure, and can be quickly deployable. At Nuage, we understand the urgency and the need to integrate security right from the start of the development lifecycle.
To enable this, we have gone ahead and incorporated a Security-First and Security-always approach to development by adding the security dimension to DevOps and providing a framework to our clients that fit in with their business objectives.
To meet the demands of modern businesses, our DevSecOps team focus on adhering to certain practices to create infrastructure and applications that can be securely scaled:
Future objectives and automation
Before jumping head-on, our DevSecOps team collaborates with the client to find out what outcome is expected in terms of accountability, milestones, and resources. While iteration is a key component, it is equally important to establish objectives. Automation ranks high in the list of objectives and thus our team helps the client by implementing an automated CI/CD pipeline and ensuring as many components as possible are automated.
Identifying and remediating vulnerabilities
Another thumb rule our team follows is the continuous process of scanning for vulnerabilities. With developers increasingly depending on open source components, it becomes imperative to integrate continuous checks to ensure that vulnerabilities are detected early on. Our team carries out checks such as OWASP and continually monitors to identify and remediate risk and issues.
Choosing and maintaining an inventory of tools
In the old days, the tools were limited and easy to track, however, in today’s agile and open source world, the count can be mind-boggling. From a security and licensing perspective, it becomes imperative to maintain an inventory of all the tools in use. Our experienced team assists organizations with monitoring of tools and analyzing which tools can be easily integrated into CI/CD cycles and can help with bridging gaps between development and security. We also help identify security and licensing risks.
Creating a Security Compliance Program
Our DevSecOps team works closely with organizations to develop a program that focuses on respond, manage, and train. We set up a learning cycle to constantly train teams on developing and deploying secure code. Being aware of the fact that an insecure way of coding is one of the major threats to accomplishing successful DevSecOps, we decided to deliberately concentrate on creating methods that minimize the scope of vulnerabilities.
Analyzing static code and infrastructure as code
Checking code every time a developer makes changes to it during the development process and ensuring that the application is deployed securely without any issues and defects are important factors to successfully achieve DevSecOps. Our team helps set up the DevSecOps pipeline to automate the process of code review, continuous build, and deployment. This helps organizations save on cost and time by catching issues early in the lifecycle.
If your organization is ready to take the plunge and keen on adopting the DevSecOps approach to speed up development and ensure highly secured development cycles, meet up with our specialized DevSecOps team to understand the approach and how they will implement and rollout at an organizational level.
Reach us to get consultation for your DevOps needs.