Building a security-conscious CI/CD pipeline

CI/CD pipelines have become a crucial practice for DevOps teams to enhance development speeds, but they can also be used as a security-conscious pipeline that subjects code to security-oriented testing, performs source code vulnerability scanning, and runs other essential checks before deployment. A security-conscious CI/CD pipeline shifts security practices left in the DevOps cycle by integrating security awareness and consciousness early in the process. This approach is known as DevSecOps, which emphasizes integrating security validation mechanisms early in development and at every stage of DevOps. Key aspects of integrating security controls within each cycle of DevOps include automated threat modeling, software bill of materials, artifact signing, unit tests for security validation, analyze infrastructure as code, and automated vulnerability scanning. These strategies can help DevOps teams take security practices a step further and transform development and operations into development, security, and operations.

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