Original Post: How Dynamic Analysis Helps You Enhance Automation for DevSecOps
The content discusses the integration of security practices into the DevOps pipeline, known as DevSecOps, emphasizing the collective responsibility for application security. This integration fosters collaboration among developers, IT operations, and security experts, aiming to enhance security while maintaining development speed and efficiency. Despite the benefits, traditional tools often fail to keep pace with DevOps demands, making automated testing tools crucial for continuous security integration.
Key principles for DevSecOps automation include:
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Defines security frameworks as machine-readable configuration files.
- Application Security Testing (AST): Automates code security assessments with tools like Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST).
- Organization-Wide Training: Encourages secure coding practices and collaboration among all stakeholders.
- Threat Modeling: Continuously identifies system weaknesses from an attacker’s perspective.
- Security Metrics: Helps assess and improve security measures and processes.
Automation in DevSecOps offers benefits such as faster issue remediation, earlier security integration, reduced manual tasks, increased transparency and collaboration, rapid yet secure development, and consistent infrastructure security.
Veracode’s tools like Dynamic Analysis (DAST) enhance DevSecOps by providing robust security posture through automated vulnerability scanning. Veracode offers a 14-day free trial for DAST Essentials to help organizations initiate and optimize their security testing processes.
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