A Comprehensive DevSecOps Guide: Key Considerations to Effectively Secure Your CI/CD Pipeline

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, The Modern DevOps Lifecycle: Shifting CI/CD and Application Architectures.


The era of digital transformation has brought about the need for faster, efficient, and more secure software development processes. Enter DevSecOps: a philosophy that integrates security practices into DevOps processes and aims to embed security into every stage of the development lifecycle — from the writing of code to application deployment in production. The incorporation of DevSecOps can lead to numerous benefits such as early identification of vulnerabilities, cost savings, and faster delivery times.