Security has been prominent factor in any organization and there are a good deals of compliance polices defined to make sure that company data is always secure and off from vulnerabilities. Considering the extent of damage that can be done by an attack, embedding vulnerabilities in products and services is the last thing an organization wants. Instead of appropriate security measures restraining the overall development process.

Since DevOps is adopted by companies for fast paced builds and deployments, concurrently security testing is vital step. Every company wants to see their company getting press and media attention. Unless it is due to a hacker and a security breach.

This where DevSecOps comes into the picture, DevSecOps swiftly addresses the existing flaws so that the development process is not slowed down. Mainly the goal for DevOps security is to think more about security principles and workflows which will be good for the application.

Application security is something that needs to be thought during development of the application. When start building the code, do the unit testing, code coverage, running some automated security testing can help developers to find any vulnerabilities.

For example, as part of your deployment process perhaps you provision new servers or deploy some Docker containers. You could then automatically run some various basic security tests.

• Scan for open ports on your server
• Test to see if your server responds to pings or not
• Do an HTTP request and validate the cookies in the response

To make sure that you have the best DevOps security in your pipelines, consider the following,

1. DevSecOps model: Make sure to have effective DevOps security model which covers the cross functional collaboration and workflow.
2. Adhere policy & governance: Create transparent security/cyber polices that are easy to understand to dev/QA and other teams.
3. Automate as much as you can: Its always good to have all things automated and results getting published to some dashboard or monitoring tools.
4. Conduct vulnerability management: Vulnerabilities should be appropriately scanned, assessed, and remediated across development and integration environments before they are deployed to production.
5. Secure access with DevOps secrets management: Eliminate embedded credentials tucked away in code, scripts, files, service accounts, in various tools, cloud platforms, etc.

These are some suggestions, but implementing them will get a company well on its way to where it needs to be in an increasingly security-conscious and dangerous digital world.