The path to agile DevSecOps – a holistic approach of automation, orchestration and correlation

Simone Brunozzi

Learn how to achieve agile DevSecOps through automation, orchestration, and correlation, ensuring secure software development and efficient feedback for developers.

Key takeaways
  • Defining policies is essential for secure software development, and it’s crucial to understand the risk level for individual software projects
  • Automation, orchestration, and correlation are key to a holistic approach to DevSecOps
  • Developers want feedback in minutes, not days, requiring efficient guidance on fixing vulnerabilities
  • Machine learning capabilities are essential for efficient security testing and remediation
  • Software composition analyzers (SCA) and open source analyzers are important tools for identifying vulnerabilities
  • Correlation between static and dynamic findings increases the confidence in the findings
  • Hybrid delivery involves external expertise to support development teams and make the process smooth and automated
  • Developers need training and enablement to understand secure coding practices and vulnerabilities
  • Intelligent remediation is crucial for efficient bug fixing
  • Rasp runtime application self-protection and interactive application security testing (IAST) are important technologies for secure software development
  • Monolithic architectures are giving way to microservices, requiring a complete rethink of security approaches
  • IT teams must be able to identify critical issues in their own code and open source components to ensure secure software development
  • Indexing and mapping polices with findings is important for prioritization and remediation
  • Gamified approaches to training can encourage developers to take ownership of secure coding practices
  • Technology choices should enable efficient synergies between different security testing approaches
  • Integration and automation are essential for a smooth and efficient DevSecOps process
  • Prioritization engines are necessary for efficient bug fixing
  • Security audits are no longer effective in the agile DevOps world, requiring a holistic approach to secure software development