Harness enhances DevOps security by integrating advanced secrets management, which enables secure storage and access to sensitive information such as API keys and passwords throughout CI/CD pipelines, mitigating the risks of unauthorized access and data breaches. As organizations increasingly embrace DevSecOps principles, the importance of integrating security checkpoints at every step of the CI/CD pipeline has grown, leading to high demand for security professionals. Secrets management in DevOps involves securely storing and managing sensitive information required across various development and deployment components, ensuring protection against unauthorized access while maintaining controlled access for authorized users and systems. Managing secrets poses challenges such as maintaining security, ensuring proper access controls, secure storage and distribution, rotation and expiration, and compliance with regulations. Harness addresses these challenges by offering a built-in secrets management feature that integrates with key management services like Google Cloud KMS and third-party secret managers such as HashiCorp Vault, enabling users to store encrypted secrets for use within their CI/CD pipelines.