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Why DevOps needs Security testing
Security has been prominent factor in any organization and there are a good deals of compliance polices defined to make sure that company data is always secure and off from vulnerabilities. Considering the extent of damage that can be done by an attack, embedding vulnerabilities in products and services is the last thing an organization wants. Instead of appropriate security measures restraining the overall development process.
Since DevOps is adopted by companies for fast paced builds and deployments, concurrently security testing is vital step. Every company wants to see their company getting press and media attention. Unless it is due to a hacker and a security breach.
This where DevSecOps comes into the picture, DevSecOps swiftly addresses the existing flaws so that the development process is not slowed down. Mainly the goal for DevOps security is to think more about security principles and workflows which will be good for the application.
Application security is something that needs to be thought during development of the application. When start building the code, do the unit testing, code coverage, running some automated security testing can help developers to find any vulnerabilities.
For example, as part of your deployment process perhaps you provision new servers or deploy some Docker containers. You…
