01Introduction
When teams deploy many times a day, a security review that takes a week becomes a bottleneck or gets skipped. DevSecOps makes security part of the delivery pipeline instead of a gate at the end.
02What is DevSecOps?
DevSecOps is the practice of integrating security into every stage of the DevOps lifecycle, including planning, coding, building, testing, deploying and operating, with shared responsibility between development, security and operations teams and heavy use of automation.
It puts shift left security and auto remediation into practice, and it relies on software supply chain security to protect the pipeline itself.
03How DevSecOps works
Security checks run where the code moves.
- 1.
Plan
Include security requirements and threat modeling in feature design.
- 2.
Commit and review
Automated review on every pull request for code flaws and secrets.
- 3.
Build
Scan dependencies, generate an SBOM and sign artifacts.
- 4.
Deploy and run
Test the deployed build, check cloud configuration and monitor in production.
04Threats and risks
DevSecOps fails when checks slow developers down or cry wolf.
Pipeline friction
Slow, flaky or blocking scans get disabled.
False positives
Developers stop reading findings that are usually wrong.
CI/CD as a target
Pipelines hold production credentials and are a prime supply chain target.
Security debt
Findings deferred sprint after sprint pile up into a backlog.
05How Parameter helps
Parameter's agents fit into the pipeline you already run.
Review on the pull request
Sentinel comments inline on GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket pull requests, with a fix.
Test on every deploy
The pentesting agents run on each release, with results in hours.
Protect the build
Supply Chain catches malicious packages before CI and regenerates a signed SBOM on every push.
