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Organizations wanting to prosper and grow through innovative apps and services have reaped significant benefits from the change to flexible cloud computing platforms, shared storage and data, and dynamic applications.

Nowadays, hackers search for new ways to spread malware and other flaws. The impact on both the customer system and the company’s reputation would be enormous, especially in today’s world, where bad news spreads in seconds.

Putting security on the same level as development and operations is essential for any application development and delivery company. Therefore, security is at the forefront of every developer’s and network administrator’s attention while creating and delivering apps in playstore or apple store.

What is DevSecOps?

DevSecOps (development, security, and operations) is a set of concepts and practices for securing an enterprise’s software, infrastructure, applications, and data. It’s a step forward from the conventional security approach, primarily concerned with securing the perimeter.

DevSecOps encourages security to have a more active role in the software development life cycle (SDLC).

Benefits of DevSecOps

  • Reduce app vulnerabilities.
  • From the start, it helps in implementing compliance into the delivery pipeline.
  • Ensure and maintain compliance.
  • It gives you the ability to take quick actions for changes.
  • It should identify vulnerabilities early in the custom software lifecycle.
  • Allows teams to operate with great speed and agility.
  • It aids in the development of a trusting connection with organizations.
  • It should improve observability
  • Increase the traceability of your products.

(SAST)

Developers can use static application security testing (SAST) to examine their source code for unsafe or poor coding, identifying potential security concerns that should address. Each found issue has a severity level, which developers can prioritize treatment.

(DAST)

Without having access to source code, dynamic application security testing (DAST) solutions can automatically perform security testing on running applications, testing for several...

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