What Is DevSecOps, in Simple Terms?
DevSecOps is the practice of integrating security into the same workflow your team uses to develop and deploy software. Instead of treating security as a separate phase or something that happens only before a release security checks, policies, and practices are embedded into design, coding, building, testing, and deployment. The goal is to find and fix security issues as early as possible, when they’re cheaper and less risky to address.
Why Traditional DevOps Fails Security
Traditional DevOps focuses on speed and automation: ship code fast, automate builds and deployments, use infrastructure as code. That’s valuable but it often leaves security for “later.” Security might be a manual audit before go-live, or a penetration test once a year. In the meantime, every commit and every deployment can introduce vulnerabilities: vulnerable dependencies, misconfigurations, hardcoded secrets, or logic flaws. By the time security catches up, the blast radius is large and fixing it is expensive.
DevSecOps closes that gap by making security a continuous part of the pipeline. Every build can be scanned; every deployment can be checked against security policies. That doesn’t mean slowing down it means catching issues before they reach production and making security a shared responsibility across development and operations.
The Miyani DevSecOps Workflow (Step-by-Step)
- Assess: We review your current CI/CD pipeline, tooling, and release process. We identify where security is missing or inconsistent and where we can add gates without blocking velocity.
- Design: We define a DevSecOps workflow that fits your stack: which tools run at commit, build, and deploy; what passes or fails a pipeline; and how findings are reported and triaged.
- Integrate: We add security steps into your pipeline e.g., SAST, dependency scanning, secrets detection, container image scanning, and infrastructure-as-code checks. We configure thresholds and failure policies with you.
- Harden: We help secure your deployment targets: least-privilege roles, secure configs, and logging/monitoring so you can detect and respond to issues in production.
- Operate & Improve: We document runbooks and train your team so you can maintain and evolve the pipeline. We can also provide ongoing support for tuning and new checks.
CI/CD Security Integration
Security in CI/CD means automated checks at defined stages. For example: on every pull request, we might run static analysis and dependency scanning; on every build, we might scan container images and check for secrets; before deployment, we might validate infrastructure changes against policy. Failures can block a release or be reported for triage, depending on your risk tolerance. The key is that these checks are repeatable, fast, and visible to the whole team so security becomes part of the normal flow, not a surprise at the end.
Tools Stack We Use
We work with the CI/CD platforms you already use GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps and integrate industry-standard tools: Snyk or Dependabot for dependencies; SonarQube or similar for SAST; Trivy or Clair for container scanning; Checkov or tfsec for IaC; and secrets detection (e.g., Gitleaks, TruffleHog). We choose tools that fit your stack and budget and configure them so results are actionable, not noisy.
Who This Service Is For
DevSecOps is for teams that want to ship frequently without sacrificing security. It’s especially valuable if you’re in a regulated industry, handling sensitive data, or scaling fast and need to prove your security posture to customers or auditors. It’s also for organizations that have already adopted DevOps but feel security is lagging or that want to avoid a big “security overhaul” later by building it in now. If that sounds like you, we’d be glad to discuss your pipeline and design a DevSecOps approach that fits.