The text discusses best practices for handling security alerts and incidents in a DevSecOps program. It highlights the importance of remediating security issues early, tracking and fixing potential vulnerabilities, prioritizing security issues based on severity and risk, leveraging actionable advice on transitive dependencies, continuously monitoring applications, defining an incident response plan, and using tools like Snyk to streamline security efforts. The text also emphasizes the need for organizations to have a comprehensive DevSecOps strategy that includes automated scanning and testing throughout the software development lifecycle, as well as continuous monitoring of applications in production. By implementing these best practices, organizations can improve their security posture and reduce the impact of security threats on their operations.