DevOps Intelligence security refers to safeguarding the entire DevOps Intelligence environment through strategies, policies, processes, and technology. Security should be built into every part of the DevOps Intelligence life cycle, including inception, design, build, test, release, support, maintenance, and beyond.

When it comes to creating, releasing, and maintaining functional software, most organizations have a well-oiled machine in place.

However, when it comes to securing that software, not so much. Many development teams still perceive security as interference-—something that throws up hurdles and forces them to rework, keeping them from getting cool new features to the market.

However, unsecured software puts businesses at increasing risk. Cool new features do not protect you or your customers if your product offers exploitable vulnerabilities to hackers. Instead, your team needs to integrate security into the entire software development life cycle (SDLC) to enable, rather than inhibit, the delivery of high-quality, highly secure products to the market.

A software development life cycle (SDLC) is a framework for building an application from inception to decommissioning console. Over the years, multiple SDLC models have emerged—from a waterfall and iterative to agile and CI/CD, increasing deployment speed and frequency. Thus, integrating security into the entire software development life cycle would be represented in a diagram.

In the past, orgaizations usually performed security-related activities only as part of testing—at the end of the SDLC. As a result of this late-in-the-game technique, they couldn't find bugs, flaws, and other vulnerabilities until they were far more expensive and time-consuming to fix. Worse yet, they couldn't find any security vulnerabilities at all.

The Systems Sciences Institute at IBM reported that fixing a bug found during implementation costs six times more than one identified during design. Furthermore, according to IBM, the cost to fix bugs found during the testing phase could be 15 times more than that of repairing those found during design.

So it's far better, not to mention faster and cheaper, to integrate security testing across the SDLC, not just at the end, to help discover and reduce vulnerabilities early, effectively building security in. Security assurance activities include architecture analysis during design, code review during coding and build, and penetration testing before release. Thus, a diagram is often used to represent this.

Here are some of the primary advantages of a secure SDLC approach:

Generally speaking, a secure SDLC involves integrating security testing and other activities into an existing development process. Examples include writing security requirements alongside functional requirements and performing an architecture risk analysis during the design phase of the SDLC.

DevSecOps automatically bakes in security at every phase of the software development lifecycle, enabling secure software development at the speed of Agile and DevOps.

DevSecOps makes the application and infrastructure security a shared responsibility of development, security, and IT operations teams rather than the sole responsibility of a security silo.

DevSecOps—short for development, security, and operations—automates security integration at every phase of the software development life cycle, from initial design through integration, testing, deployment, and software delivery.

DevOps Intelligence is designed to integrate the security feature across all DevOps stages. The Secure dashboard provides visibility of the Application Summary and five key security components: Secure alerts, Static Scan, Open Source License Compliance, Dependency Check, and Container Vulnerability Scan.