Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast. DevOps is giving way to DevSecOps, but the pace at which this is happening isn’t quite heartening to see. Another development in the space is Security-as-Code, which works in tandem with DevSecOps, and that is what we will be talking about in today’s episode.

While there is no doubt in any of our minds that security is an integral part of the software, we usually tend to leave it for the end of the SDLC, by which time it is already too late to handle such a critical aspect of the software. This will cause delays in your software development timelines. Since we are all conditioned to believe that security is a one-time thing, most times nobody bothered to automate the security testing, so you’re stuck with doing everything manually, which only takes so much more time than automated testing.

To change this scenario, experts suggest two critical steps. First, shift security to the left. Meaning, why should security be added as an afterthought? Why should security be incorporated after everything else is already completed? Instead, move security steps to the left, making it an integral part of the SDLC, and not a step to be taken after the SDLC is complete.

Second, invest in automation. Manual work is often very tedious, time-consuming, prone to errors, and risky. Instead, put in the effort to automate the security aspects and testing. Automate the process of defining policies, security test cases, etc., and save both time and resources, plus, no errors!