Product security with DevSecOps consulting services

DevSecOps services help build a secure foundation for DevOps initiatives. The meaning of DevSecOps is development, security, and operations.

DevSecOps involves considering application and infrastructure security from the outset and end to end. DevSecOps also incorporates automation, to ensure the DevOps workflow isn’t compromised.

To continuously integrate product security, it’s important to choose the right tools and integrate security right from the start.

DevSecOps approach sees security as integral to the software development lifecycle (SDLC), building it in at the start of the pipeline, and creating code with security in mind.

Our top-class DevSecOps strategies include sub-services such as risk assessment, threat modelling, and CI/CD pipeline hardening.

• DevOps is a combo of two words: Development and operations. DevSecOps amalgamates three words: Development, security and operations.
• DevOps bridges the gap between development teams and IT operations, ensuring collaboration. DevSecOps is integrated within DevOps, building security into every step and optimizing the DevOps strategy.
• DevOps breaks down the organizational silos that exist between development and operations by creating a continuous delivery pipeline. DevSecOps builds security in at every stage of the development lifecycle.
• DevOps supports the agile movement and enhances productivity and efficiency, accelerating the product launch lifecycle. DevSecOps is a security-first approach, validating security without impairing the development lifecycle, and installing security into the architecture from the very start.

An effective DevSecOps strategy involves three key components: Secure-by-design, defence-in-depth, and shift-left security.

Secure-by-design is a cybersecurity approach that allows businesses to automate data security controls and build security into IT processes from the outset.

It focuses on stopping a breach rather than one happening, then fixing it. Secure-by-design looks to continually manage, monitor, and maintain security risks.

The cloud makes it easier for developers to accomplish security-by-design. Originating from a military strategy, defence-in-depth is a layered security architecture that provides defence measures, in case a vulnerability is exploited or a control fails.

The idea is to delay a cyber attack rather than defeat it. Defence-in-depth utilizes physical, technical, and administrative security controls.

The secure-by-design concept forces shift-left security, meaning IT security is implemented at the earliest design stages, reducing the costs associated with exposing potential security issues further down the line.

The sooner a threat is diagnosed, the cheaper it is to remove and secure it.

DevSecOps services apply security at each stage of the DevOps pipeline.

These phases include plan, code, build, test, and deploy. The tools involved include:

• Risk assessment
• Threat modeling
• Consulting & architecture analysis
• CI/CD pipeline hardening and review
• Extended security testing with penetration testing and security audits (Black Box, Grey Box, and White Box)
• Cloud hardening
• Vulnerability scanning
• Configuration hardening and review
• Source code review
• Red Teaming
• Phishing tests
• Open-source intelligence
• Incident response and digital forensics

DevSecOps culture focuses on uniting development, security, and operations. Normally siloed, DevSecOps installs collaboration and shared responsibilities, breaking down barriers. It offers common goals across disciplines and departments and fosters empathy.

There are four main pillars:

• People
• Processes
• Technologies
• Governance