Definition

What is DevSecOps?

A cultural and technical philosophy that integrates security practices throughout every phase of the software development lifecycle, rather than treating security as a separate, end-stage review. DevSecOps shifts security left — empowering developers to identify and fix vulnerabilities during development — through automated tooling, shared security ownership, and continuous feedback loops. It is a direct evolution of DevOps principles applied to the security domain.

Related terms

CI/CD Security →

The practice of integrating automated security testing and policy enforcement directly into software build and deployment pipelines.

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) →

A white-box security testing approach that analyzes application source code, bytecode, or compiled binaries for vulnerability patterns without executing the program.

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) →

A black-box security testing technique that analyzes a running application from the outside by sending malicious inputs and observing its responses, without access to source code.

Threat Modeling →

A structured process for systematically identifying, prioritizing, and planning mitigations for potential security threats to a system, ideally conducted during the design phase before code is written.

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