Definitions:

DevOps – DevOps is the change in culture and practices of the SDLC process which enable the organization to produce high-quality software and continuously deliver the software. It has been originated from two words, Dev and Ops. DevOps has some phases through which it works. DevOps is the collaboration between development and operation teams to ensure continuous integration, development, test, deployment, and monitor. After DevOps came the development and operation team is no longer working as ‘siloed’. DevOps is much better and faster than any other traditional model in the current era because it has removed the vulnerabilities between culture ad practices which was stopping other organizations to keep up with the time which was demanding a faster and reliable process.

DevSecOps – DevSecOps is for development, security, and operations. Its main motto is to make every employee working under a project consider security policies also important like other works, so the product will be saved. DevSecOps is all about security measures from the development phase to the monitor phase. Organizations can implement DevSecOps to break down silos between development, security, and operations so they can maintain the proper security over their products. DevSecOps uses some security testing tools to integrate into their CI/CD process like –
⦁ Static application security testing (SAST)
⦁ Software composition analysis (SCA)
⦁ Interactive application security testing (IAST)
⦁ Dynamic application security testing (DAST)

SRE – SRE has been originated from google company. SRE’s main aim is to solve the operational problems right from testing to monitoring software when it is deployed in the market. The main focus of creating it was to remove the vulnerabilities of operation parts to make the product effective and reliable. It removed the ‘silos’ from all departments and made the operation teams work together to produce an efficient product, e.g – Somewhere you might have experienced you have never felt any downtime (the app is not working properly) on your Google apps even when Google teams are pushing updates over that particular app. This is like the SRE team works making your apps more trustworthy without making you feel any disturbance. SRE works with the collaboration of software engineers. SRE somewhere automates Its operation tasks and accelerate software delivery with minimizing risks.

Best Resources to Learn DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE.

There are some resources where you can learn about all three of them is Youtube, Blogs, platforms that provide certifications, Fb Group, etc. I am going to share some of the channels and place them.

Youtube – These are some Youtube channels Devopsschool, Debug.school, and artificial intelligence universe, where you can learn DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE. Here you will get videos frequently. You can expand your knowledge here because the videos which are uploaded here are directly from our classes where some students like you would be learning at that time. There are so many video’s has been uploaded till now related to this course. These channels have been made only for DevOps and their tools-related courses, So these channels are really helpful to learn DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE-related topics and tools. We have premium membership as well that you can buy every month where you can get your questions answered on daily basis as well as you can get access to a full playlist of DevOps-related tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Python Etc, which you can get normally in youtube. This facility is only for a premium membership program.

Fb groups – This is the FB Group DevOpsSchool where you can get the details related to DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE. Here we upload the contents related to courses and some knowledgeable things and other important information which can expand your knowledge as well as keep you aware related to DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE. It’s a very important place which will not make you feel regret. DevOps India is having fun on this platform with more than 5000 members in very little time. This is a public group from all over the world who are interested in DevOps. It proactive and updated group which posts, share, comments daily. It has a strict rule not to promote any advertisement, it’s completely focused on updates, sharing information, and discussion about the topics. You can see almost all participants participate in comments to share their views, even though you can find a job as well where recruiters post their vacancies here.

Blogs – https://www.thedataops.org/what-is-devops-life-cycle/, https://www.scmgalaxy.com/tutorials/what-are-devops-devsecops-and-sre-and-differences-among-them/, https://www.aiuniverse.xyz/software-development-lifecycle-sdlc-beginners-guide/ these are three blogs link where you can get some DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE knowledge as well as differences between them. So do check these blogs, it will help you more to understand all three of them. And also you can visit our BestDevops blog website where you will several blogs related to DevOps. Blogs have always been an important part of our learning that expands our knowledge in desired topics. So always be connected to these blogs if you are seeking knowledge. A blog is always written after seeing so much information in several places, so Blogs are really important to read because you might get that information that you can’t get anywhere else. It has always been seen google plays a much important role than any other platform, that’s why Google always tries to give you the actual and correct information to help you out. So do check the Blogs.

Websites – These are the websites of an institute DevOpsSchool, ScmGalaxy where you can get the details of the complete course related to DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE. Also, you will get a tutorial tab that has been made to help participants with DevOps-related issues which can be accessed without any charges. DevOpsSchool provides training and certification for all three of them. This Platform is one of the best platforms in the world which provides training all over the world and has made some carriers as far now in DevOps. Some of the places where it provides the training are Hyderabad, Bangalore, London, Amsterdam, Mumbai, Singapore, San Francisco, Europe, Australia, etc. DevOpsSchool provides online and also offline classes to their students just to help them according to their comfortability. There are so many tabs on this website through you can do so many things like Solutions, classes, etc. You can contact us through this website as well that is of course to help you guys with your issues. Through this website you can request to become a trainer, a trainee or can get training for your employees as a company or consulting firm.

Certification – There are some certifications to enhance your skills and knowledge about DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE. The certifications are – Master in DevOps Engineering (MDE) – Including DevSecOps and SRE , DevSecOps Certified Professional Online Training, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Certified Professional Training. There are several topics will be covered in these certifications as well as you will be provided real-life-based projects which will boost your carrier also it will be more helpful for your knowledge and resume. DevOpsSchool offers a more friendly and comfortable environment where you can free to ask anything related to topics and our trainers are ready to help you all the time with PDFs, video calls, and many more. For those persons who want to build their carrier in DevOps, these certifications are very important as they not only provide the knowledge they improve your skills with real-life-based projects as well. So get it if you want to become a professional on DevOps.

Best DevOps – This is a website where updates come daily related to DevOps and other technologies like what’s happening with that specific technology or DevOps right now, what updates have come, how to use that Etc. This is the place from where you can be the first to get the latest news. BestDevOps is a platform of DevOps updates and news where you can read about DevOps-related updates, events, news, tutorials, tips, and much more. Through the contents which have been uploaded here, you will be helped a lot if you are a DevOps enthusiast. Just be with this platform and you will be up to date on regular basis. We have gathered all the blogs from different companies, different country and experts of DevOps in one place just to help you guys. BestDevOps is the DevOps portal for a website that covers a broad range of areas in DevOps.

I hope this list will help you out to connect and hear from DevOps professionals who provided information about everything DevOps-related you needed to know.

Conclusion

In this blog, we discussed the Definitions of DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE and the resources through which you can learn about all three of the courses. The above-given resources are very important to you guys because all are important channels to learn about DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE. You can learn DevOps from all the resources free of cost but only DevOpsSchool is the channel where you can go for the certification in any specific tools or courses.

Training Place

DevOpsSchool is a very important platform to get trained as it is one of the best platforms and to get trained from the best ones is how feels only a trained person can say. So do check it once if you are looking for certification and to boost your carrier. you can learn more from the above-described details.

As the majority of businesses are increasingly moving to the online world, employees keep working remotely and more cyberattacks keep happening all over the globe, there is no doubt that embracing DevSecOps should be the new normal for every company. Organizations need to be able to adopt DevSecOps practices and adapt to new and evolving threats in order to protect their data and systems from malicious attacks.

At Cybersecurity 2021: The New Normal Virtual Summit, taking place March 4 and 5, the brightest minds in the security and IT industry will come together to discuss new security threats, empower DevOps teams with the latest security tools and provide practical tips and guidance to help developers and ops teams make the right security decisions to keep their data secure.

The two-day virtual event features thought-provoking discussions, networking opportunities and educational sessions focused on:

DevSecOps tools and practices
The main challenges of security and development teams when it comes to AppSec
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Passwordless and the long-term future of identity management
Policy-as-Code and how it impacts security
How security threats changed with COVID-19 and what to expect in 2021
How to manage AppSec
How to mitigate API vulnerabilities
How to break the silos and advance towards DevSecOps maturity
How to expand your security program through low-to-no cost initiatives
Time series database for security monitoring
Machine identity management
Top 10 Hacks From the Past Decade
Runtime observability techniques for security and compliance
Securing AWS credentials on DevOps machines
Cybersecurity 2021 features an outstanding lineup of industry leaders, including:

Ira Winkler, author and president at Secure Mentem
Chenxi Wang, founder and general partner at Rain Capital
Ron Gula, president at Gula Tech Adventures
Richard Stiennon, founding member of The Analyst Syndicate and chief research analyst at IT-Harvest
Joe Levy, CTO at Sophos
Rajat Bhargava, founder and CEO at JumpCloud
Myla Pilao, head of security research communications for TrendLabs at Trend Micro
Upasna Gupta, senior product marketing manager for Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks
Julian Waits, general manager of cyber business unit and public sector at Devo
Joseph Feiman, chief strategy officer at WhiteHat Security
Ian Murphy, founder and CEO at CyberOff
Mike Jones, security researcher at H4unt3d Hacker Podcast
Rhys Arkins, director of product management at WhiteSource
TJ Jermoluk, co-founder and CEO at Beyond Identity
Jim Ducharme, general manager of the anti-fraud business unit at RSA
Attendees will have the chance to enter a raffle for a chance to win a free copy of “You can Stop Stupid” by Ira Winkler and another one for a free copy of “Security Yearbook 2020” by Richard Stiennon. There will be valuable resources available for download and attendees will be able to interact with sponsors to learn more about their security tools and services.

Datadog is planning to expand the scope of the security and observability services it provides following the acquisitions of Sqreen, an application security platform provider, and Timber Technologies, a provider of a tool, called Vector, for collecting and normalizing log data.

Ilan Rabinovitch, vice president of product and community for Datadog, said Vector makes it possible to collect, enrich and transform logs and other observability data from both on-premises and in-cloud environments in a way that makes it easier to route that data to wherever it is needed via a data pipeline.

Sqreen is a provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that detects, blocks and responds to application-level attacks using runtime application self-protection (RASP) capabilities enabled by a web application firewall (WAF) embedded within an application.

Rabinovitch said as IT continues to evolve, it’s clear organizations are looking to embrace DevSecOps best practices in a way that will require security tools that can be embedded within an application, coupled with observability tools that provide more context about the overall IT environment. That context is especially critical, given the amount of data that needs to be analyzed to determine the potential scope of a security threat to an IT environment, Rabinovitch said.

The Datadog platform is already widely employed to monitor cloud computing environments. There is an industry wide effort to take monitoring to the next level by enabling observability, which applies analytics to provide more context. Surfacing that context, however, requires the ability to normalize data across a pipeline using Vector, Rabinovitch said.

Of course, the Vector tools are equally applicable to DevOps workflows that have yet to incorporate security technologies. The goal, now, is to make it easier for IT teams, made up of developers, IT operations teams and security specialists, to collaborate by breaking down the various data silos created by IT and security management tools.

It’s too early to tell what impact the rise of DevSecOps will have on roles within IT organizations. Most organizations will continue to employ a range of specialists that will be able to work more closely with IT generalists, Rabinovitch said. Managing IT is becoming the equivalent of a barn raising, in that it requires members of a community with different skills to come together for a certain amount of time to accomplish a specific task, Rabinovitch added.

It’s also not clear whether IT organizations view observability as a distinct capability separate from monitoring, or whether they will simply view observability as the next logical extension of existing tools. At the core of that issue is debate over whether observability platforms need to be acquired separately, as part of an effort to replace existing monitoring tools, or whether those tools will evolve over time to provide observability capabilities.

Regardless of the path forward, it’s apparent the increased complexity of modern IT environments – made up of microservices, containers and serverless computing frameworks – is about to force that issue.

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13. Key Findings
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Dynamic testing looks at the running application, poking and prodding to see how it reacts to known vulnerabilities. A complete dynamic scan watches a test runner as it runs against the application and tries all points of entry it can find, normally a highly automated process that takes a while.

Where dynamic scans fall short is in pinpointing the problem within the application. Knowing that things went wrong when a given CVE was exercised against the app is one thing, but knowing what went wrong and where it went wrong is much more useful to make development teams productive. This is where interactive application security testing (IAST) tries to lend a hand. Using tooling in the application, interactive scans can offer the exact module/source file/shared library (etc) that caused the error.

Generally speaking, interactive tests are best run at a targeted subset of an application, finding details needed to resolve issues the organization is already aware (or suspect) exist. In our test environment, we use interactive scans to zero in on issues that were detected by static and/or dynamic scans.

It is likely that the interactive testing market will be the one to continue to move down the line to full-on security monitoring and/or it will encompass a growing list of environmental issues—it is, after all, designed for a running application to get exercised and find the issues. It is not a stretch to see these tools move in the above directions, and indeed you can see the beginnings of these moves in different vendors.

But for today, the things-you-want-to-look-for list is here. My usual disclaimer applies … Through my (and others’) work for ASG, we’ve turned up a lot of information about DevSecOps tools and what to look for. We don’t have room in these blogs to delve into the depths of that research, but I’m offering an abbreviated hit-list of things to look for when moving toward this type of product. There is a lot to look for, and please be aware that this list is just to get your journey jump-started.

Language/framework support: It doesn’t need to be as tightly integrated as language-dependent static scans, but the tool still needs to support your specific development efforts. Support for Ruby/RoR, for example, is important if that is your dev platform of choice.
Source of vulnerabilities: Like other security tools, understand what interactive testing tools cover and how it is covered. Currently, most of these tools count on an external test running tool to actually run the test, while the dynamic scan watches what is happening inside the application.
Toolchain integration and support: Can the tool be called from your build/test toolset? Does it have integrations to feed results back into your build/bug-tracking systems? While these tools offer good interfaces to see what is going on, the explosion in tools that DevOps brought is making us dashboard-weary. Make certain your centralized code quality information store can be used as the single pane (or pain, depending upon implementation) of glass for initiating scans and reporting results.
Test tool support: As mentioned above, most of these tools are watchers that rely on another source to run tests. Make certain that there is some manner of coordination between these two so the test runner can be kicked off from the dynamic scan or vice-versa. More manual steps aren’t needed here and just slow the process.
False-positive rate: Interactive testing still struggles with false positives, though these tools are getting better. Have an understanding about average false-positive rates of the product in question, then ask about customization options to reduce this number in your given environment without reducing security posture.
Cost to configure/maintain: As is probably obvious, tooling an application to look inside of it is a step beyond normal production needs. Make certain the overhead of adding interactive testing to a project and the cost of integrating are worth the results to be had.
Vendors call it “interactive” because it watches the interaction of the pieces of code inside the app as it’s running. Many customers call it “interactive” because the “tool” used to run apps for testing ends up being people “interacting” with the application. Both are somewhat accurate, though automation is coming apace, as it is for everything software testing.

Choose a product that has enough automation today to suit your organization’s needs, and is progressing to wow you. Of all the security tools out there right now, interactive holds the greatest promise for wowing us. Since it is happening at runtime and can see inside the application, everything from environment to installed applications on the host could be covered, and that’s where some vendors are headed. An integrated environment security test tool with deep knowledge/reporting that includes knowledge gained from static scans and source code analysis is on the horizon—and, given the direction of all of DevOps, making that solution fully automated and reporting back to build systems is coming also.

Interactive won’t replace the other steps in DevSecOps, but it will replace some of their functionality—or more often enhance some of their functionality. If a static scan notes a potential vulnerability, dynamic could verify if it is a real vulnerability before a human ever sees a report on the issue, for example.

I’ll end this as I’ve ended the others: You all are kicking rear and taking names in a tough IT environment that exploded into near-100% remote for most of you. Keep kicking rear and don’t forget security. It is more important as your organization becomes geographically dispersed because now applications that were “secure enough” for the internal network are shared publicly. Even with infrastructure protections such as VPN in place, more caution should be applied to those applications simply because they are more exposed than “must be on our LAN” allowed for.

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is moving toward requiring rapid, agile and secure software development processes for new systems.

Brian Hermann, director and program executive officer, Services and Development Directorate within the agency, said he wanted to make it clear that the process known as DevSecOps will be increasingly essential for new contracts.

“When we develop capabilities, we will use the DevSecOps methodology. The process of using a pipeline instead of tools to transform initial code into operating services and deploy that code as quickly as possible will allow us to move from release cycles in the months and weeks timeline to release cycles closer to daily,” Hermann said during a Forecast to Industry as part of the AFCEA TechNet Cyber conference, a virtual event held Dec. 1-3. “That challenges some of our other processes, but I want to make sure everybody understands that our goal is to move to that agile DevSecOps methodology because that’s going to be core to any of the contracts that we require for new development efforts.”

He added that the organization is building a Mobility Enablement prototype, which he described as a “DevSecOps-like pipeline” for developing mobile applications across the department. We just recently are wrapping up a prototype contract to put that capability in place. We’ve developed a business case, and we’re working through how that continues to provide that capability for the department.”

The first program to fully adopt the DevSecOps practice is the Joint Planning and Execution Services contract. It is an effort to modernize the existing Joint Operational Planning and Execution System that provides global force management support for the department. “It allows force planners to input scenarios and needs and to look at options for which forces should be used in those conditions. Both of those capabilities are used at the combatant command level and at the task force level below that. We are actively working the JPES modernization development, and that is the first program, actually, to fully take advantage of our DevSecOps pipeline as we move toward that modernized approach,” Hermann reported.

Modernizing the Global Command and Control System-Joint also will use DevSecOps processes. “It has been in existence for 25 years or so, and it is providing capability to hundreds of sites around the world. We are endeavoring as much as possible to modernize a client server kind of approach that’s used to host it in local enclaves to more of an enterprise solution that will allow us to take advantage of speedy, DevSecOps delivery of capability to the warfighters,” Hermann said. “To do that will also require that we take advantage of all of the levers of capability that DISA provides, to include high-speed redundant transport to make sure the services are available to anyone anywhere.”

That modernization contract is expected late in the 2021 fiscal year, and the organization intends to take a different approach. “As we move toward a data-centric future, we will likely have companion contracts that create accessible data links and modular decision making functions in accordance with the JADC-2 or Joint All-Domain Command and Control, vision for situational awareness, which means there will likely be additional contracting opportunities that accompany the sustainment of the existing capability,” Hermann stated. “We expect this to become the basis of providing data for many developers around the department to create smaller applications that produce the situational awareness that is required.”

Additionally, the directorate intends to move away from the continuity of operations approach to backing up systems and instead to “leverage clouds’ elasticity and distributed delivery for efficiency and improved availability and reliability,” he added.

In the recent times, a new trend is gaining popularity in the software development life cycle called DevSecOps. This technology bridges the gap between development, operations, and security teams to speed up the software development process through collaboration and communication among the teams. The goal of DevOps is to give more ownership to the development team for developing and monitoring applications. Security plays a key role by providing high-end security to the applications.

“DevSecOps = DevOps + Security”

The rising adoption of various software applications among businesses and consumers has opened new avenues for hackers to hack data leading to the lack of security in terms of coding or configurations. DevSecOps is expected to play a vital role at this point in maintaining the security by collaborating various departments at the initial stages of product development.

According to Infoholic Research, the global DevSecOps market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 33.7% during the forecast period 2017-2023. The rising security breaches, awareness about DevSecOps platforms, need for improving SDLC by reducing the time wasted, and the increasing investment activities have led to the demand for DevSecOps. In addition, the growing demand for advanced technologies, such as AI, automation, and cloud technologies, are expected to support the DevSecOps market growth. The market is analyzed by regions, deployment type, and enterprise type.

Segmentation Analysis: Regions and Deployment type

Region-wise: The Americas leads the market followed by Europe. The US, Canada, UK, Germany, and France are the major revenue generators owing to the rising security breaches, advanced technology, demand for high-end software products, and government rules and regulations related to security. Asia Pacific is always an attractive market for the key stakeholders to enhance their business or product portfolios. Especially, India, China, Japan, Singapore, Philippines, and other country enterprises are showing interest in the DevSecOps platform. It shows that DevSecOps platform adoption rate is about to witness a lot of investment in the upcoming years. Finally, MEA is an emerging market for the key stakeholders during 2017-2023.

This report provides details about DevSecOps deployment type. Most of the DevSecOps players are offering cloud and on-premises deployment modes for their customers and most of the enterprises are still demanding for the on-premises model. In the recent years, the enterprises are moving from on-premises to the cloud, but cloud providers need to ensure security at each stage of the product development involving security, developers, and operational professionals. The cloud deployment model is expected to contribute the major market share followed by the on-premises model.

Enterprise type Analysis

Globally, all kinds of enterprises are falling under security breaches somehow, especially SMEs are always targeted by the hackers’ due to the lack of IT infrastructure and knowledge about security threats. Whereas, larger enterprises are adopting more and more digital, advanced technologies to reach their customer demands, but security loopholes on software product/services may impact their customer experience. Thus, enterprises are showing interest in adopting the DevSecOps platform and using it. The large enterprise segment is leading the market, followed by the SMEs, but in the future the SMEs segment is expected to increase its revenue contribution toward the market growth.

Key Vendors and Competitive Analysis

Some of the companies covered in the report include IBM, Splunk, Chef Software, Puppet, Amazon, CA Technologies, Qualys, and others. The small and growing start-ups are focusing to provide high-end DevSecOps tools and are receiving a good number of customers. The big players are enhancing partnerships and M&A strategies with the small players to increase their footprints in the market, and thus, gain a leading position in the DevSecOps platform market. Players are investing in building an expertise workforce in the DevSecOps area to satisfy the ongoing and future demands.

Benefits

The report provides an in-depth analysis of current and future market status for DevSecOps. The report aims to provide an opportunity for key players to understand the latest trends, demands, players’ initiatives, and technologies related to the market. This report gives the complete details about regions, country wise details, adoption and plan ratio of DevSecOps, revenue, and key trends. In addition, it helps the venture capitalists in understanding the profile of the companies.

DevSecOps is often referred to as an “artificial kidney.” Its function is to remove the excess wastes and fluid from the blood when the patient’s kidneys can no longer perform that task. DevSecOpss are made of thin, fibrous material.

Overview of the worldwide DevSecOps market:
There is coverage of DevSecOps market dynamics at the country level in the respective regional segments. The report comprises competitive analysis with a focus on key players and participants of DevSecOps Industry covering in-depth data related to the competitive landscape, positioning, company profiles, key strategies adopted, and product-profiling with focus on market growth and potential.

Impact of COVID-19:

DevSecOps Market report analyses the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on the DevSecOps industry. Since the COVID-19 virus outbreak in December 2019, the disease has spread to almost 180+ countries around the globe with the World Health Organization declaring it a public health emergency. The global impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are already starting to be felt, and will significantly affect the DevSecOps market in 2020.

The outbreak of COVID-19 has brought effects on many aspects, like flight cancellations; travel bans and quarantines; restaurants closed; all indoor events restricted; emergency declared in many countries; massive slowing of the supply chain; stock market unpredictability; falling business assurance, growing panic among the population, and uncertainty about future.

COVID-19 can affect the global economy in 3 main ways: by directly affecting production and demand, by creating supply chain and market disturbance, and by its financial impact on firms and financial markets.

The market research report covers the analysis of key stakeholders of the DevSecOps market. Some of the leading players profiled in the report include:

Allmed Medical Care Holdings Limited Asahi Kasei Corporation.
Braun Melsungen AG
Bain Medical Equipment (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd.
Baxter International Inc.
Browndove Healthcare (P) Ltd
Chengdu OCI Medical Devices Co., Ltd.
China Chengdu Wesley Biotech Co., Ltd.
FARMASOL Medical Products Ind. and Trd. Co.
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
Jiangsu Lengthen Life Science and Technology Co., Ltd
Jiangxi SanxinMedtec Co., Ltd.

Research Objective

To analyze and forecast the market size of the global DevSecOps market.
To classify and forecast global DevSecOps market based on the product, power type.
To identify drivers and challenges for global DevSecOps market.
To examine competitive developments such as mergers & acquisitions, agreements, collaborations, and partnerships, etc., in the global DevSecOps market.
To conduct pricing analysis for the global DevSecOps market.
To identify and analyze the profile of leading players operating in the global DevSecOps market.
The report is useful in providing answers to several critical questions that are important for the industry stakeholders such as manufacturers and partners, end-users, etc., besides allowing them in strategizing investments and capitalizing on market opportunities.

Key target audience:

Raw material suppliers
Market research and consulting firms
Government bodies such as regulating authorities and policymakers
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Security teams are longing for automation capabilities. And, in recent years, their options have improved with Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) and other security solutions like Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Identity and Access Management (IAM), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), and Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) offering automation in a narrow capacity.

A recent RSAC blog post suggested that SOAR, because of its likeness to infrastructure as code, is equal to DevSecOps. The article points out that automation and coding are important to security teams, but DevSecOps is more nuanced than that. Though there are elements of workflow automation in SOAR, what sets DevSecOps apart from SOAR is its hyper-reliance on open source and its adoption of an agile approach.

What is SOAR?

Gartner® defines SOAR as “technologies that enable organizations to collect inputs monitored by the security operations team.” SOAR tools ingest data from SIEM systems to define incident analysis and response procedures in a digital workflow format.

What is DevSecOps?

DevSecOps is a modern process methodology typically applied to software development. The goals of DevSecOps are to increase release velocity, eliminate silos between teams, reduce frequency and impact of bugs in production releases, and move security further left in the software delivery process.

These goals are achieved in two ways. One, a cultural shift where teams work together on one platform. In other words, software-defined everything. Two, the use of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). CI/CD is a category of software tools that integrate and push code frequently to make sure new versions of an application work. CI/CD tests all aspects of the pipeline, including security, before code is pushed to production.

Why SOAR is unlike DevSecOps

One might confuse the mechanics of SOAR with that of DevSecOps because security teams using a SOAR tool are, in a very high-minded way, embracing the spirit of DevSecOps, which is to use code to automate their work.

But, to be clear, this is where the similarity starts and ends. The two fundamental differences, outlined below, are what really set DevSecOps apart from SOAR.

(1) SOAR has limited support for open source: SOAR tools rarely integrate with open source tools because by nature they primarily integrate with third-party tools like Cisco, Exabeam, Okta or Splunk. The lack of open source integration is a huge deterrent for DevOps teams that rely heavily on open source tools like Git, Ansible and Kubernetes for their work. This impasse isolates security teams from production and discourages DevOps teams from collaborating.

(2) SOAR does not take an agile approach to deliver automation: When security teams using SOAR tools talk about automation, it is within the context of ingesting data from SIEM, managing that data and then automating incident response workflows. This is different from using CI/CD, as in DevSecOps, which allows developers to integrate their new source code, test it, push it and then deploy it to production frequently.

Especially for security teams, CI/CD allows them to iterate in an agile approach, scan the codebase or application for known security vulnerabilities, or run infrastructure and applications against security benchmarks that improve product safety and company-wide security posture.

Therefore, DevSecOps embraces open source and takes an agile approach to automation, whereas SOAR does not on both counts. However, the option for open source is actually ideal for security teams, which like the support and accountability afforded by a large community. Similarly, access to CI/CD is beneficial for security teams, which have long wanted to shift left. In other words, have Dev introduce them early into the software development process so that they can troubleshoot before code makes it to production.

Achieving agility with CI/CD, a DevSecOps focus

SOAR is exclusively a security platform whereas DevSecOps holistically addresses the needs of all teams by embracing CI/CD and open source tools. While SOAR cannot stand in for DevSecOps, DevSecOps solves pain points inherent to SOAR while also offering general-purpose automation that elevates the role and work of security.

Some security teams may be reticent to pursue a DevSecOps solution because CI/CD is traditionally heavily reliant on code. But there are plenty of low-code/no-code options these days. Ideally, teams should source a DevSecOps platform that is all-inclusive; one that contains a visual interface where all levels of coders can collaborate but also contains a powerful back end that caters to DevOps.

The threat landscape is ever-shifting. With security teams needing to do more despite a talent shortage, automation must gain traction to ease the pressures mounting in their domain. Security teams benefit greatly from CI/CD pipelines, which not only replicate and accelerate their manual capabilities but also carve out precious time needed for modernizing their daily work processes. By embracing the spirit and practices of DevSecOps, security teams can become agile through their CI/CD processes.

Halloween is upon us, and while much of the world is focused on scary creatures like ghosts, ghouls, or werewolves, DevSecOps teams have a few scary creatures of their own to deal with.

From the Dracula-like developer stuck in a world from centuries ago who is thwarting the creation of secure apps, to the DevOps ghosts that downplay the importance of app vulnerabilities, it’s important for DevSecOps teams to understand the threats that may be lurking in their own teams.

First off, there are the Dracula-like developers who are stuck centuries in the past. According to Dennis Hurst, founder of Saltworks Security, these developers exist out of a desire not to change the way they write code. “We run into this a lot, of ‘we’ve always built an application this way, why do I need to security test it?’ And they’re not sort of realizing that these applications are now on the internet, they’re public facing, or they’re connected to things that are on the internet, or they’re running in a cloud infrastructure so it’s no longer a nice sort of happy data center,” said Hurst.

According to Hurst, the way for teams to overcome these Dracula-like team members is to have clear leadership. “Without strong leadership, team members feel free to keep doing what they have always done, which stifles innovation,” he said.

Another scary member of the DevSecOps team to look out for are DevOps ghosts, in other words, shadow IT. According to Hurst, these are the people that believe “they can just magically go around all of IT and go straight to the cloud. The applications are there, sort of like ghosts, you hear them rattling around and you know that they’re there but you don’t actually see them, nobody knows about them, they’re kind of – maybe they’ll be there. We see this a lot in security where we find applications running on the internet that no one knew about.”

Hurst added that this isn’t a rare occurrence; it’s actually fairly common, especially with more employees working from home. People go home and take their laptops with them, so how do you secure that?

“A lot of companies have jumped to the cloud for some parts of their business because of COVID, maybe they couldn’t get to the data center,” said Hurst. “So it’s just easier for people to get in their mind that ‘oh, I can just stand this application up in the cloud and when this is all over with we’ll figure out how to get it back in-house.’ We’re definitely seeing it more. We’re seeing more people going to the cloud, maybe using a corporate credit card to open the accounts even, so it’s not even a corporate owned account even, it’s just somebody’s personal credit card that they use to stand up a website somewhere, we see that more than we would like.”

Hurst believes that using monitoring systems is one of the biggest ways to protect against shadow IT. He explained that there are services that monitor the internet looking for properties that point back to or are linked to the company’s IT infrastructure. A big downside is that there isn’t really a proactive way of preventing someone from spinning up a service on their own. “Anyone can go out and stand up a website, but you can monitor to see when it happens. The faster you can address it, the easier it is to manage,” said Hurst. “So if a website is stood up for a day, it’s pretty easy to take that down or get them to move it. If it’s there for 6 months or a year, doing business, it becomes much stickier and challenging to get pulled out because you’re taking business offline.”

A software development team in the Boston office of Kessel Run, a program within the DOD’s Defense Innovation Unit (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)

Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin, demonstrated the value of interchangeable parts in 1801 to the U.S. Congress, President John Adams and President-elect Thomas Jefferson. Whitney proved the viability and the military value of interchangeable parts by stripping down several muskets, then reassembling a functional musket from random parts from the disassembled muskets.

Today, we take for granted that parts are interchangeable — from the bolt carrier of a rifle to the alternator on a transport vehicle, we assume that one is as good as another. But, as with information systems developed today, muskets of that era were bespoke artisanal creations. The parts for any given firearm were custom fitted to accommodate the variation in manufacturing for the other components comprising the whole. A gunsmith would be necessary to replace the hammer or pan of a musket and return it to working condition. The same can be said for information systems today that often require a specialist or team of specialists to configure, deploy, modify or repair in the instance of a failure.

To address the bespoke nature of information systems and to gain the same types of benefits for information systems that interchangeable parts brought to manufacturing, the Department of Defense is adopting DevSecOps. It’s an approach that has seen accelerated growth in the public sector over the last two years, especially within DOD and warrants a closer look.

First, what is DevSecOps? DevSecOps is a combination of processes, tools and people, which combine with enterprise values across the disciplines of Development, Security and Operations. DevSecOps form a unique culture to enable more efficient delivery and management of secure software.

The integration of security augments the DevOps practices seen in industry. It’s important to integrate security throughout the process in government adoption to effectively reap the benefits of iterative improvements. Traditional development processes more often incorporate security as a checkpoint that needs to be passed, but does not integrate security concerns throughout the process. DevSecOps elevates security into a first-class citizen, instead of a bolt-on checkpoint. The adoption of DevSecOps is extensive across the federal government including the General Services Administration, Air Force, Army and Navy.

DevSecOps Processes

From a process standpoint, DevSecOps can be seen as an extension beyond the software development lifecycle practices found in agile development and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) methodologies to improve the operational behaviors of the deployed system, including security. Taking the principles of continuous deployment, applying them to operations management and introducing configuration as code, operational tasks can be automated and through this automation, increasing resiliency.

Ultimately, the result can be push-button automation — the ability to completely redeploy a component of infrastructure from bare metal to full operational capability by kicking off the appropriate automation playbook.

DevSecOps tools

The list of tools utilized in DevSecOps are myriad. It’s more important to have the right classes of tools than to have precisely the same tools as another DevSecOps-practicing organization might use. DevSecOps is a combination of all three pillars of processes, tools and people — there is no single product that can be purchased. Unfortunately, there’s no such thing as a DevSecOps box we can install in a datacenter.

The collection of tools are focused around source code version control, build automation, test automation, security validation, performance testing, configuration management and extend into project management systems that permit prioritization, issue tracking and team collaboration.

DevSecOps people

The people component of DevSecOps is often the most challenging in the DOD. Conway’s Law says that organizations tend to build products with a design that reflects the communication structure of the organization. Organizations organized into silos trend toward applications built into silos. With the tight integration of roles required for effective DevSecOps adoption, many government agencies are seeing a need to flatten their organization structure and integrate IT professionals into cross-functional teams aligned across a product, rather than maintaining role based internal organizations that communicate through ticketing systems.

This restructuring and alignment of personnel helps drive results-driven outcomes by bringing everyone together, working toward the same goal: the successful release of their product.

DevSecOps advantages

DevSecOps brings several advantages to the table for DOD agencies, including shorter time to value, faster iteration to field new capabilities and moving risk left. The most valuable advantage is shortened time to value, whether that value be measured as innovation, reliability, or reduced rollout lead time.

The Waterfall process, the most common traditional development process, however, focuses on extensive requirements documentation and development up front. This can set goals for the development of features and capabilities for the first release of a product that do not all have significant impact or provide wide-reaching value across the user base. DevSecOps is able to bring more value to the enterprise, more quickly, through its iterative feedback process.

Delegated Machine Credentials support “infrastructure as code” to seamlessly incorporate privileged access management into the DevOps pipeline

ANTA CLARA, Calif. ― July 28, 2020 ― Centrify, a leading provider of Identity-Centric Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions, today debuted Delegated Machine Credentials (DMC) as part of the Centrify Privileged Access Service to reduce risk and empower automation in increasingly complex, infrastructure-as-code-based elastic environments. Centrify DMC enables organizations to reduce their reliance on service accounts with static credentials used to access password vaults for workloads and services in the cloud or on-premises, instead delegating the entitlements of the machine to applications running on it. The result is improved agility through the reduction of manual processes, and a smaller attack surface due to a significant reduction of service accounts that could potentially expose the organization.

The ongoing challenge for DevOps continues to be enabling agility for developers while also making sure that operations and security teams have confidence that everything is running smoothly and securely. Increasingly, the use of password vaults is becoming a bottleneck that developers don’t want to be hassled with, while security teams are struggling to keep up with the dynamic nature of DevOps centric environments. One of the main challenges is that password vaults were designed to manage human administrative login to servers. Ideally, privileged access for and between workloads would be automated by a modern cloud-PAM solution so humans don’t need to be involved.

Enter Centrify Delegated Machine Credentials, which leverages the power of the Centrify Client to enroll a machine in the Centrify Platform. The Centrify Platform gives the machine a unique identity and credential, can automatically assign role-based permissions, and scope which vault APIs can be called, to constrain access by individual applications, services, or other workloads on the machine. This machine credential can now be delegated for use by workloads on that system, leveraging the binding trust the machine has with the Centrify Platform, avoiding the need to create and manage hundreds or thousands or additional service accounts in a vault. This reduces risk and improves operational efficiency.

“The explosive growth of machine and service accounts in the enterprise is creating a wealth of opportunity for cyber-attackers to sneak into the enterprise,” said David McNeely, Chief Strategy Officer at Centrify. “Our infrastructure-as-code approach makes PAM a ‘first class citizen’ in the CI/CD pipeline, eliminating the need for thousands of potential exposure points while increasing agility. The unique binding trust between the Centrify Client and the Centrify Platform is what makes this identity-centric approach to managing machine identities and their entitlements possible.”

Traditional application-to-application password management (AAPM) approaches have been more of a band-aid. They took embedded credentials out of code, but then require the creation of hundreds or thousands of new service accounts in the vault, a credential and rotation schedule for each one, and client code to obtain the credential. This is an undertaking that can drag down even generously-sized Ops teams. Centrify Delegated Machine Credentials solves this issue by eliminating the requirement for hundreds or thousands of additional service accounts.

“Conceptually, delegated machine credentials can be thought of as ‘federation for machine identities,’ in the sense that rather than applications sharing passwords or secrets directly, the Centrify client can broker a temporary access token between Centrify’s PAS and target resources – applications, service accounts, containers, and APIs,” said Garrett Bekker, principal security analyst at 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. “DMC creates a machine identity and issues a scoped token that is only valid for a defined period of time, in lieu of using many service accounts with long-lived credentials that present a greater attack window.”

About Centrify

Centrify is redefining the legacy approach to Privileged Access Management by delivering multi-cloud-architected Identity-Centric PAM to enable digital transformation at scale. Centrify Identity-Centric PAM establishes trust, and then grants least privilege access just-in-time based on verifying who is requesting access, the context of the request, and the risk of the access environment. Centrify centralizes and orchestrates fragmented identities, improves audit and compliance visibility, and reduces risk, complexity, and costs for the modern, hybrid enterprise. Over half of the Fortune 100, the world’s largest financial institutions, intelligence agencies, and critical infrastructure companies, all trust Centrify to stop the leading cause of breaches – privileged credential abuse.

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According to a report by research firm MarketsandMarkets, the global DevOps market size will reach USD 10.31 billion by 2023, up from USD 3.42 billion in 2018. The figures attribute to the growing demand for advanced and innovative software solutions and increased competition, which has encouraged companies to shorten the time to market of their solutions while maintaining the quality.

Over the past few years, several companies have embraced the DevOps model, which essentially integrates software development and operations teams to churn out high-quality software products quickly. This cross-functional approach aims at leveraging the expertise of both sides simultaneously to increase the speed of application delivery by shortening the software development life cycle (SDLC).

However, application delivery could hit a roadblock if proper security measures are not integrated into the software during the development phase. The entire idea of speedy delivery will go for a toss!

Security shortcomings discovered at later stages would require the DevOps teams to rework on the software to fix the issues. We cannot neglect this, as security is indispensable, especially when there is a legion of hackers looking to exploit the tiniest of vulnerability for waging a full-fledged cyberattack on companies today.

A truly cross-functional software development process should integrate the security team within the DevOps model to weave security protocols and features within the product from the beginning.

A measured combination of security-focused policies, procedures, and technologies will help in adding a layer of security across all stages of software development, from design to development and testing through to release and maintenance.

However, the successful formation of the DevSecOps team comes with its sets of challenges, cultural and operational.

5 Major Challenges Faced by DevSecOps Team

1. Conflicting end-goal

While the DevOps team strives for faster delivery of the software, new features, updates, and fixes, security teams prioritize security over speed. In fact, they push for more thorough testing, which substantially slows down the SDLC.

2. Negligence of security

In their quest for faster release of applications, the DevOps team often puts security testing on the back burner. This causes unresolved vulnerabilities, flaws, and misconfigurations in the software to stay until the end of the process unless detected and fixed.

At times, security issues are not adequately addressed because of tight delivery deadlines, creating security gaps that could lead to malfunctions or security breaches later.

3. Lenient access controls

Individuals within the DevOps team and tools used during the software development lifecycle often use privileged access credentials. However, incomplete control on privilege access rights could create opportunities for attackers to infiltrate the company’s IT infrastructure, damage business-critical procedures, or steal data.

4. Risks with open-source components and cloud environments

DevOps teams use open-source codebases for fast, automated, and continuous development, testing, and vulnerability detection. But these open-source tools could contain security flaws, which, if not detected and fixed earlier, could amplify security risks in the final product.

A 2018 report from Black Duck by Synopsys found that the Internet and Software Infrastructure apps contained the most vulnerable open source components, with 67% applications featuring high-risk vulnerabilities.

Usage of a scalable, low-cost cloud computing environment for development and testing of apps could also create security concerns, as the cloud infrastructure itself has potential security gaps.

5. Slow security testing

DevOps teams are hesitant to add security to the mix as they fear a slowdown in the development lifecycle, and their fears are not entirely baseless. Some of the security testing procedures are still archaic and lead to a lag in the development cycle.

Checklist for adding security into the DevOps model

Transforming from DevOps to DevSecOps: Imbuing a culture of security across the organization will help all the stakeholders involved in the software development process to understand the importance of safety and embrace it easily.
Implementing Privileged Access Management and security policies: Companies should lay down an unambiguous and comprehensive set of security policies and codes of practice for improving configuration management, vulnerability testing, code review, and other cybersecurity functions. Moreover, privilege access rights should be efficiently distributed, limiting access as per the roles and functions of testers and developers. Privileged credentials should be stored safely, and activities within the privileged sessions should be monitored.
Management of vulnerabilities: Tools to detect vulnerabilities across the software development cycle can help fix the issues well in time. Passive security testing, penetration testing, and other such mechanisms should detect vulnerabilities and patch them. Vulnerabilities in the chosen cloud infrastructure and open-source components should also be identified before utilizing them as part of the SDLC.
Automation: DevSecOps teams should adopt automation tools to automate repetitive tasks for accelerating the development cycle and to detect shortcomings that could be missed due to human negligence.
Use artificial intelligence/machine learning and analytics: Organisations should leverage more AI/ML solutions to have end-to-end visibility of the entire process from software development through to release. Moreover, analytical tools will help assess data collected from different phases of the development cycle to derive insights that may help improve project outcomes and reduce risks and shorten the development cycle.
Conclusion

The ultimate goal of companies shifting from traditional development models to DevOps and now to DevSecOps is the delivery of robust software. Inducting good security practices will help in uncompromised attainment of the objective.

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IBM Corporation
MicroFocus
Synopsys
Microsoft Corporation
Google LLC
Dome9
Palo Alto Networks
Qualys
Chef Software
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The DevOps philosophy has greatly transformed how technology organizations are run and software development projects are executed. It combines the core principles of development with a focus on speedier and shorter lifecycles. DevOps has also ensured features and fixes are deployed frequently and quickly. Nevertheless, if you want to extract full value from the responsiveness and agility of DevOps, security must play an integrated role throughout the app development cycle. That’s the premise of DevSecOps.

DevSecOps definition

Like DevOps, the DevSecOps philosophy is executed within an Agile framework that breaks projects into more manageable chunks. The key difference is that DevSecOps integrates security into every aspect of the development process. It compels constant communication between the developer and security teams, something that typically didn’t occur until the later stages of the waterfall model.

DevSecOps makes everyone in the team responsible for security. It merges into a single streamlined process two otherwise conflicting goals — secure code and speedy delivery. Security issues are tackled as they arise as opposed to after a threat or vulnerability has been detected in production. DevSecOps ensures security considerations are embedded in every decision. It entails thinking through infrastructure, database, and application security from the get-go.

Why is DevSecOps important?

The push toward DevSecOps is necessitated by two key changes that have taken root over the last couple of years.

1. New technologies

Technology infrastructure has experienced transformational change over the last two decades. The transition to cloud computing, shared resources, and dynamic provisioning have led to unprecedented gains in speed, cost, and agility. All of this has greatly enhanced the abilities of application development.

In particular, the capacity to deploy applications in the cloud has turbocharged development scale and velocity. That has, in turn, precipitated a shift to DevOps and agile methodologies thus making mega application launches increasingly a thing of the past.

2. Development speed

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Traditionally, security matters were relegated to the latter stages of software development projects. It wasn’t a problem then because a project could last for months and sometimes years before it was completed. There was more than enough time for security teams to deep-dive into the app and exhaustively address the gaps.

DevOps though has dramatically changed the velocity and frequency of development cycles. We are talking just weeks or days per iteration. Existing compliance monitoring and security tools weren’t built to keep up with the rapid pace of change DevOps requires. If security models aren’t modified to keep up with the new expectations, a security catastrophe looms.

Benefits of DevSecOps

The benefits of DevSecOps are relatively straightforward. Better collaboration between security and development teams early in the project cycle provides multiple advantages over the long run. Overall, greater security automation in the development cycle reduces the danger of mistakes and misadministration, something that could inadvertently lead to production attacks or downtime.

More specifically, DevSecOps delivers the following advantages.

1. Reduced time spent on configuring security consoles
DevSecOps reduces the time security architects would otherwise spend manually configuring security consoles. Security functions like firewalling, vulnerability scanning, identity management, and access control can be automated throughout the DevOps cycle. This leaves security teams free to concentrate on policies and assign more time to strategic, high-value tasks.

2. Developer teams see security as an enabler, not an impediment
Developers see security as a firewall to innovation and therefore a thing that carries a negative connotation. By shifting to the DevSecOps philosophy, organizations can build a product that’s secure and innovative. DevSecOps ensures better ROI on an organization’s security infrastructure. It also delivers improved operational efficiencies across both IT and security roles.

3. Early identification of vulnerabilities

Hackers are constantly looking for opportunities to gain a foothold in software applications. They’ll seek to deploy malware, exploit gaps, and penetrate systems. Usually, they would do this when the application is in production. Still, you cannot completely rule out an attacker targeting the development environment too to get a foot in early.

Either way, whenever malware or a major vulnerability is discovered once an application is in production, the potential damage to the developer’s or company’s reputation is huge. The continuous vulnerability testing of a DevSecOps project means gaps are captured early.

4. Other benefits

Other benefits include greater agility and speed for security teams, the capacity to respond to needs and changes fast, better communication and collaboration among teams, more opportunities for automated testing, enhanced product reliability, and advances in operational efficiency across multiple departments.

Obstacles to DevSecOps

There can be obstacles to moving to DevSecOps given shortcomings in existing developer responsibilities, governance structures, and the lack of skills and solutions.

In particular, the number of security professionals with hands-on experience in DevSecOps is relatively low. There’s also no one-size-fits-all due to differences in policies, infrastructure, and business requirements.

Fortunately, none of these challenges is insurmountable. Once the compelling business benefits of DevSecOps become apparent to a wider pool of organizations and security experts, this new mindset will be widely embraced as a natural successor to DevOps.

DevSecOps is DevOps done well

Application security was often treated as an afterthought. It was considered a roadblock to gaining or maintaining a lead over the competition. Bypassing or trivializing security is however a risky strategy that could have far-reaching repercussions once the app is in production.

DevSecOps is about building security throughout development. DevOps teams must automate security to protect not just the development environment and data but also the CI/CD process. It helps organizations release code quickly but securely.

So far, businesses who adopted this philosophy have experienced positive results thanks to integrating security, shortening feedback processes, improving controls, and reducing incidents through shared responsibility.

If you are going to do DevOps well, it must have a security component. That is DevSecOps in a nutshell.

Speed and agility are at the core of digital transformation and DevOps culture, and have quickly become a business imperative for organizations that want to remain competitive. Speed cannot come at the sacrifice of security, though. The pace of software development requires that security be baked into the code from the start rather than tacked on after the fact. Developing secure code fast requires empowering developers with the skills and tools they need and building security into the DevOps pipeline.

Embracing DevSecOps

DevOps culture and the drive to work faster and more efficiently affects everyone in the organization. When it comes to creating software and applications, though, the responsibility for cranking out code and producing quality code falls on developers.

The pace of DevOps culture doesn’t allow for anything to be an afterthought. It’s important for developers to support security directly as a function of application development in the first place, and to operationalize security within the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.

Unfortunately, traditional education does little to prepare them. It’s possible to get a PhD in computer science and never learn the things you need to know to develop secure code. As organizations embrace DevSecOps and integrate security in the development pipeline, it’s important to ensure developers have the skills necessary. You also need to focus on both the “why” and the “how” in order to build a successful DevSecOps training program.

Don’t Just Check the Box

Not all training is created equal. Consider why you’re doing the training and the outcome you hope to achieve rather than doing training for the sake of training. Many organizations focus on training developers in secure coding practices from the perspective of compliance. It’s crucial to engage developers in a meaningful way, though, and not just check a box.

Many compliance frameworks, such as PCI-DSS, require ongoing application security training, but compliance training often reinforces the wrong lessons. Developers learn the most expedient way to check the box and achieve compliance rather than learning the most efficient way to develop secure code. This approach also causes developers to feel like the security team looks down on them or doesn’t understand the challenges they face or the expectations they have to meet.

The Carrot and the Stick

How you do security is also important. Training works better when developers feel like they are part of the process and when they have a reason to want to excel.

For nearly everyone, doing something in practice reinforces lessons better than just reading content or listening to a webinar or video. Interactive labs are more engaging and provide feedback as developers go through the training. They can practice writing secure code with guided practice that is self-paced. They can also get hands-on experience exploiting vulnerable applications, then patching them back up.

You should implement developer training that creates incentives for developers by gamifying training. Create custom Capture the Flag events, track individual progress and provide a leaderboard that enables healthy competition among the developers.

You also want to provide developer training that is relevant to your organization’s preferred coding languages and business objectives. The training should teach skills and strategies that are applicable to the code your developers work with and give them tools they can use immediately to improve the security of the applications they’re working on.

Speed is essential for businesses to maintain a competitive edge today, and security is more important than ever. Make sure you have the training in place to help shift application security knowledge left and integrate security to mature DevSecOps practices.

We’re trying, says senior dev evangelist

GitLab version 13.0, the company’s major release of 2020, is out today.

Rival GitHub is the biggest player in online code repositories, with Atlassian’s Bitbucket and GitLab also popular. GitLab is a distinctive proposition, though, aiming to be the only platform you need for DevSecOps, whereas GitHub and Bitbucket have a narrower focus.

GitLab covers a suite of applications including management, planning, source code and issue tracking, continuous integration and continuous delivery, security testing, Kubernetes management, monitoring, and a Kubernetes web application firewall. The core of GitLab is also open source, unlike GitHub or Bitbucket, and the free Community Edition is popular for self-hosting.

A GitLab issue board
A GitLab issue board (click to enlarge)

The remote-only firm’s development process is open, so anyone can track what each team is doing, and is also based on the Agile principle of minimum viable product, which means new features are introduced with basic functionality and then enhanced.

The company is therefore not about big surprises, but rather continuous improvement, and when new stuff does get added, it is flagged well in advance. You can find exhaustive coverage of what’s new in 13.0 in the company’s “kickoff” videos here or, if you prefer text content, here.

There is a focus on security in this release, including easier responsible disclosure – since GitLab is now a CVE Numbering Authority. It will soon be possible to request a CVE from within the GitLab user interface. There is also new static analysis security testing for .NET Framework code; previously this only covered .NET Core, and DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing) for REST APIs, a key part of many modern applications.

Users of the Community Edition get a significant new feature in 13.0, which is design management, previously a GitLab Premium feature. “We’ve considered our users who are designing products as individual contributors,” explain the release notes.

Progressive Delivery, the idea of targeting releases at a subset of users rather than rolling out new features to everyone immediately, is another theme. Feature flags lists, a collection of tagged features for inclusion or exclusion from a release, now has API support for creating, editing and deleting them. A/B testing based on feature flags is promised soon, as is the ability to create feature flags from merge requests.

Brendan O’Leary, senior developer evangelist, told The Reg that a key new feature is Gitaly Cluster support. “Git itself can be hard to scale, it is a filesystem-based database,” he said. “That works great on NFS but in the cloud world it’s a challenge. Our solution has been the open-source product Gitaly, which is a gRPC between Git and a system that’s consuming Git. What’s coming in 13.0 is Gitaly clusters’ which is the ability to have multiple write destinations for that, so you can now shard your data and have it be highly available. It removes the requirement for NFS.”

GitLab’s ambition to provide everything in one application makes it unpopular with specialist DevOps vendors for whom it is a threat. Does GitLab play nicely with others? “We think that the more you can adopt a single application the more benefits you get, but that’s not realistic for an enterprise tomorrow, they’re not going to throw everything they have out,” said O’Leary. “We have in our handbook that we need to interoperate with others, and we’ve got a lot better at that recently. We’ve got an ecosystem team now that’s responsible for how we play with others and we didn’t used to have that. Another thing we’ve added is first-class support for other security scanning integrations.”

How has lockdown affected GitLab? “There’s been a huge uptick in the interest in remote,” said O’Leary. “We always believed that remote was the future of work. On the business side we’re seeing enterprises struggle but they want to be efficient. We’re not seeing a huge negative impact.

The line between development teams, security teams, and operations teams continues to blur into the culmination of DevOps and DevSecOps, according to those working in the industry.

Rising rates of DevOps adoption and tool choices are leading to job function changes, and organisation charts across development, security, and operations.

GitLab reports that DevOps practitioners are working with faster release times, continuous integration and deployment, and progress towards shifting test and security ‘left’, says GitLab CEO and cofounder Sid Sijbrandij.

“That said, there is still significant work to be done, particularly in the areas of testing and security. We look forward to seeing improvements in collaboration and testing across teams as they adjust to utilising new technologies and job roles become more fluid.”

The GitLab Global DevSecOps Survey explains that teams must understand how the role of the developer is changing, and how it affects security, operations, and test teams.

35% of developers say they define and/or create the infrastructure their app runs on, but only 14% monitor and respond to that infrastructure. This is traditionally a role held by operations. Additionally, more than 18% of developers instrument code for production monitoring, while 12% serve as an escalation point when there are incidents.

Furthermore, 83% of developers report being able to release code more quickly after adopting DevOps. continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) is also proven to help reduce time for building and deploying applications – 38% said their DevOps implementations include CI/CD.

An additional 29% said their DevOps implementations include test automation, 16% said DevSecOps, and nearly 9% use multi-cloud.

Automated testing is on the rise, but only 12% claim to have full test automation. And, while 60% of companies report deploying multiple times a day, once a day or once every few days, over 42% say testing happens too late in the development lifecycle.

There is increasing uncertainty from both developers and security teams over who should take responsibility for security development.

More than 25% of developers reported feeling solely responsible for security, compared to testers (23%) and operations professionals (21%).

Additionally, 33% of security team members say that they ‘own’ security, while 29% say everyone should be responsible.

Despite questions of ownership, security teams continue to report that developers are not finding enough bugs at the earliest stages of development and are slow to prioritize fixing them – a finding consistent with last year’s survey.

More than 42% of security respondents say that testing still happens too late in the life cycle, while 36% reported it was hard to understand, process, and fix any discovered vulnerabilities, and 31% found prioritising vulnerability remediation an uphill battle.

“Although there is an industry-wide push to shift left, our research shows that greater clarity is needed on how teams’ daily responsibilities are changing, because it impacts the entire organisation’s security proficiency,” comments GitLab vice president of security, Johnathan Hunt.

“Security teams need to implement concrete processes for the adoption of new tools and deployments in order to increase development efficiency and security capabilities.”

GitLab surveyed more than 3,650 software professionals from 21 countries worldwide.

Cloud IT deployments can be so complex that security issues cannot be fixed easily — so they aren’t — raising the attack surface for enterprises.

A report on DevOps security has found that only 4% of issues found in production are dealt with because of the increased complexity of cloud based IT systems is creating new security gaps.

The State of DevSecOps report was commissioned by Accurics — which specializes in addressing IT security through infrastructure as code in order to better handle the increased complexity of IT in the cloud.

The report found that the cloud-based IT stack has become very complex with the addition of technologies such as containers. Each additional layer of the IT stack adds new risks.

The authors state: “The crux of the issues lies in the fact that as the cloud native stacks become more complex, point cloud security solutions become inadequate and gaps in coverage start to emerge.”

Containers are being used by 84% of the organizations surveyed and 41% are using serverless. The Kinsing malware attack is provided as an example where a simple misconfiguration of an API port allowed hackers to breach container clusters.

“Cloud infrastructure goes far beyond traditional network, storage, and compute; organizations are rapidly adopting new technologies such as serverless, containers, and service mesh,” says Piyush Sharrma CTO at Accurics. “Cloud infrastructure is becoming increasingly immutable: it is never modified after it is deployed. If something needs to be changed, new infrastructure has to be provisioned through code.”

But organizations are making errors when provisioning and managing infrastructure through code. About two-thirds of reported security issues were exposed cloud storage services due to “egregious mistakes” that are easily avoidable by applying best practices.

In 90% of cloud deployments the security baseline has shifted due to privileged users making changes without updating the code that was defined “to be the single source of truth.”