Whitepaper

DevSecOps
An Ultimate Defense
To Organization’s
Software Security

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INDEX
1. The Matter of Concern- Security Remains a Challenge 02

2. Its High Time! Security in Business Strategy 04

3. Future of Secure Business…DevSecOps Turns Savior! 06

4. DevSecOps Value Addition to Business 09

5. Who is Responsible for DevSecOps? 13

6. DevSecOps Tools And Implementation 14

7. DevSecOps Market Share and Growth To 2023 15

8. Conclusion 18

9. Why Veritis? 18

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The Matter of Concern

Security Remains a Challenge
Digital transformation has brought
about a significant change in the way
IT business operates. However, one
key concern continues to haunt many
organizations in their digital journey i.e.
‘Security!

Run for fast-paced service delivery and

continuous customer satisfaction often
leads to minimized focus on security.
But its noteworthy that ‘security is as
important as to time-to-market of a
product’, and any compromise on this
impedes the fast-paced cycle of trade
and commerce.

Cybercrimes reported over the period

prove this, showing us how essential the
security is for a product life cycle.

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Its High Time!

Security in Business Strategy

In general, we tend to focus on something only when

we feel the dire need of it. Same has been the case
with security!

Though history presents many stories on disasters

caused by cybercrimes, we still see many firms
overlooking security. 2018 formed the recent basis for
this fact by reporting severe legal battles and intense
loss faced by many firms due to ‘security’ during the
year!

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Facebook is a classic example that faced 'questions

over security’ when close to 50 million of its users were
threatened by a security breach. The security breach

‘Where is took place after hackers attacked APIs for access to

information including names, genders and localities

Security?’ of users, says Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Uber was another victim of security breach that

reported the loss close to GBP 133 million in legal
settlement, after the firm failed to protect 57
million customer and driver data. Additionally, the
transportation network giant had to pay USD 100,000
for hackers to get the stolen data deleted.

Considering many such incidents happening on a

larger scale, it is estimated that cybercrime will cost
the world over USD 6 trillion per year by 2021.

Given this fact, its high time for companies to rethink

on security inclusion in their business strategy to
achieve expected goals!

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Future of Secure Business…

DevSecOps Turns Savior!
Technology advanced to the level of self-defense. This nature of
technology is clearly reflected in DevSecOps principles, which strive
for ‘security integration’ throughout the product lifecycle.

The DevSecOps Approach!

Most security and compliance tools haven’t been able to keep up with the fast-paced rapid development,
making security the biggest obstacle.

Although DevOps has been sought-after for its abilities in improving application build, speeds and driving
IT innovation, security remained a challenge. Organizations continued to face data loss, IP theft, business
disruptions, increased expenditure and competitive disadvantage.

That’s where DevSecOps arrived as a step beyond DevOps and with a different approach to security!

As an extension to DevOps, DevSecOps secured the collaboration process with security functions that check
vulnerabilities and risks at every step of SDLC.

In a nutshell, DevSecOps principles look at security as an integral part of the Software Development Life Cycle
(SDLC) and not as a process that comes at the end.
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DevSecOps Value
Addition to Business
With security integration across the product life
cycle, DevSecOps adds some unique value to the
business.

Cost Reduction: DevSecOps reduces risks and

their losses by identifying and fixing issues early
in the development phase, boosting the software
development process. According to a report,
automated application performance analysis in
the ‘Design and Architecture’ (26 percent of the
companies) and ‘Development’ stages (52 percent)
nullified the chances of security breach and resultant
losses for many firms.

Increased Security: DevSecOps uses rigid

infrastructure to reduce vulnerabilities, insecure
defaults, increase code coverage and enhance
automation. In the event of an attack, immutable
infrastructure allows companies to tear down the
infrastructure and rebuild it with new credentials.
This type of infrastructure also favors a shift to
the cloud, which eliminates the need for usage of
vulnerable hardware.

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43 percent of surveyed organizations have

adopted infrastructure-as-a-code.

Scope for Innovation: Regular security audits

and monitoring helps organizations stay
ahead of any hacking attempts. Any suspicious
activity can be tackled right away, presenting
room for innovation in terms of best security
enhancements against cybercrime. 81 percent
of respondents reported that they have a
cybersecurity incident response plan in place.

Speed for Recovery: Security personnel

employ templates or pet/cattle methodology
to deal with a security incident. In this
methodology, servers are either replaced or
nurtured to keep the needs of the business
running.

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Secure by Design: Automation is driving the success of almost every business. DevSecOps enhances
security by using automated security review of code, application security testing, educating and
encourages developers to use secure design patterns.

Every Individual is responsible: By harnessing a culture of openness, DevSecOps presents room for
enhanced security right from the early stages of development. Better the collaboration, better will be
the approach to security measures and enhancements. All the stakeholders’ approach and insights can
enhance the security firewall against breaches.

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Who is Responsible for DevSecOps?

Security: A Collaborative Effort
The DevSecOps responsibility is not limited to security personnel alone. It is a collaboration of people and
processes including development, operations & security personnel and technology.

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People: Security personnel are no more out of the main DevOps process. A succesful DevSecOps strategy
brings together every individual along the length and breadth of the organization including Managers, Chief
Information Officers, colleagues and peers. This allows security personnel to identify possible loopholes and
prepare development and operations professionals accordingly to develop a secure product that improves
sales and customer satisfaction. Security personnel training other DevSecOps teammates about the potential
risks and safe practices also brings in a culture of safety and utmost quality across the cycle.

Processes: Processes are as crucial as people. They define the effectiveness of the product by ensuring
everything and everyone collaborates to deliver quality output.

DevSecOps makes this possible by eliminating the siloed approach of working as individual entities and
promotes the culture of collaboration.

Key aspects of DevSecOps process include:

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Development and Operations teams maintain a blueprint of past processes, thus saving DevSecOps
practitioners the time to recreate projects f rom scratch. They also help maintain a common reference point
within the organization that is accessible to everyone involved and available at any given time.

Similarly, DevSecOps increases the response time to security by making short, feedback-based security loops.

Technologies: Technologies are designed and driven to ensure hassle-free operations.

Following are the key implementations associated with the DevSecOps process:

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Government: In 2015, when cyber security became a national alarm with the breaches of US federal
agencies- IRS and the Off ice of Personnel Management, President Obama declared a national emergency
against cybercrime.

The US Government announced a major investment of USD 19 million in security following the aftermath!

Alongside governments, major businesses have decided to combat cybercrime with increased budgets
for cybersecurity including Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Microsoft, who announced the annual
cybersecurity research and development investment of USD 1 billion.

This scenario shows how important is government’s role in combatting cybercrime!

As part of policy initiatives, governments should introduce stringent measures against cybercriminals
and take action against organizations that fail to protect customer data. This will pave way for saved
costs through better security and security risk management practices.

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Industries Benefiting from DevSecOps:

DevSecOps is making its way into following industries that consider security as utmost priority:

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DevSecOps Tools And Implementation:

Listed below are the top DevSecOps tools that help enhance the DevSecOps process:

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DevSecOps
Market Share and
Growth Up To 2023
The global DevSecOps market is poised to
grow f rom USD 1.5 billion in 2018 to USD 5.9
billion by 2023 at a CAGR of 31.2 percent,
driven by the growing need for highly-secure
continuous application delivery and the
focus on security and compliance.

However, DevSecOps is faced by some

challenges including:

Unavailability of Skilled Professional

Organizations’ Reluctance to Adopt

New Tools and Technologies

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DevSecOps Trend Forecast (2018-23):

Cloud-based DevSecOps: Cloud-deployed DevSecOps will propel

enhanced inf rastructure scalability and performance. Cloud
deployments help professionals go through the process with
improved speed, security and scalability.

Moreover, DevSecOps practices will reduce operational

expenditures by using standardization and automation, while
providing complete control in line with user needs.

Retail and Consumer Goods Will Hold the Largest Market Share:
The forecast period will observe retailers align their application
security processes with cloud-based application development and
deployment processes, with a prime focus on security-centered
business culture.

A high adoption rate of DevSecOps solutions and services has

been observed in the retail sector with a vision of achieving:
o Operational Eff iciency and Productivity
o Reliable and Secure IT Environment
o Faster Time-to-Market
o Enhanced Customer Experience

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APAC to Hold Largest Market Size and High Growth Rate:
The Asia-Pacific region is expected to offer immense growth
opportunities for DevSecOps during the forecast period.

Driven by:
o Advancements in Cloud Computing
o IT Infrastructure Services
o Internet of Things (IoT)

Furthermore, the increasing adoption of cloud technologies,

rising demand for business functions, adoption of secure software
development and deployment tools will increase signif icantly in
the forecast period.

Global DevSecOps Market: Recent Developments

In June 2018, leading DevSecOps tool ThreatModeler announced

the launch of Threat-Modeling-as-a-Service (TMaaS) solution.
TMaaS is a managed solution that aims to transform organizations’
cybersecurity and risk management needs using the automated,
collaborative threat modeling solution.

In September 2018, Aqua Security introduced risk assessment

controls for server-less functions and container encryption.

In May 2018, Micro Focus launched the ITOM Platform, which

integrates DevOps with AIOps to speed up service delivery across
large-scale hybrid IT environments.

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Conclusion:
DevSecOps, not only redefines the software development process but also improves product/service quality and
efficiency through security.

Mitigated risks and enhanced performance will drive the successes of many businesses to come.

With benefits such as cost reduction, improved security and attack-driven defense, the business redefining
process of DevSecOps will give organizations the much-required reputation upliftment and smooth business
operations.

While DevSecOps is already writing the success of many businesses, are you still thinking of adoption?

Waste no time further, security is a crucial element to business survival.

Get in touch with Veritis!

Veritis has been among the early DevSecOps service providers and has more than a decade-long experience in
dealing with and understanding the pain-points and security challenges of over a 100 organizations including
those in the Fortune 500 list.

You could be next!

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