Company
Date Published
Author
Fikayo Adepoju
Word count
1791
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The text provides a detailed guide on integrating security into the application development process through DevSecOps, with a focus on automating security checks within the CI/CD pipeline using CircleCI. It outlines a tutorial for setting up periodic security scans using a web form that tests for malicious domain entries, leveraging Webshrinker for domain threat assessment. The tutorial includes prerequisites such as Node.js, Git, and a CircleCI account, and walks through cloning a demo application, implementing automated security tests with Puppeteer, and configuring a continuous integration pipeline. The tutorial emphasizes the importance of separating development and testing teams to ensure comprehensive security evaluations and concludes by explaining how to set up scheduled pipelines in CircleCI to automate regular security scans, ensuring that the application's security status is continuously updated and managed even in the absence of new code commits.