DevSecOps and Risk Mitigation

DevSecOps, which is short for development, security, and operations, is the practice of integrating security processes into every stage of your software development lifecycle (SDLC) to ensure secure applications are reaching your customers and users. The primary goal of security processes and DevSecOps is risk mitigation. Risk mitigation decreases potential threats by eliminating or intercepting hackers before there’s an attack or reduces the consequences if an attack does occur.

Security is everyone’s responsibility and is of the utmost importance to companies everywhere. Access, authorization, customer data, as well as reliability, integrity, and the customer experience must remain secure and assured. Armory enables you to maintain compliance and control both in production and non-production environments and adopt modern DevOps and DevSecOps practices – shift left – to empower your developers to make operational changes and automate policies.

Automatically run Security scanners in a deployed environment – Armory eliminates the reliance on manual security processes by integrating with security test suites and automating security scans, promoting deployments to production only if all tests and scans pass. 

Embracing Pipelines-as-Code makes it easy for you to manage privileges at scale while automating compliance empowers you to standardized compliance at scale. Automate creating and enforcing policies that govern your software and infrastructure deployment, along with leveraging Secrets Management and integrations to top vaults – to increase your deployment security and so you can deploy to production knowing you are compliant. When it’s audit time, you can use your history and policies to tell your story.

• Deploy to a dedicated security testing environment to perform your test(s), while leveraging webhooks to trigger security scanners, and only deploy to production environments if the security test(s) and scanners pass successfully
• Create policies to be enforced at certain stages of your deployment, like requiring approvals by one or multiple roles before deploying to specific environments
• Utilize Role Based Access Control (RBAC) within policies to restrict actions, designate access and usage, or hide specific UI elements based on role
• Keep configuration files in source control while protecting secrets within a secret store, like Vault. Instead of committing your secrets in plain text to source control, Secrets Management allows you to commit only the location of a secret in a secret store to your configuration files
• Set permissions for different roles, ensuring individuals have proper access through role based access control

• Platform Ops – Don’t spend time troubleshooting mistakes that might have been made by others with too much access. Simplify your operations and services so developers can’t affect one another’s deployments or configurations.
• Application Devs – Don’t worry about causing an issue with someone else’s deployment, or their configuration. Policies and RBAC make sure you create and use only what you’re allowed to.
• InfoSec – By automating security scanning you ensure every change is scanned, every time, so that no change introduces a known security vulnerability.
• Executives – By automating policy compliance and enforcing security processes, you simplify operations, accelerate your time-to-market, and decrease deployment risks; all while remaining compliant.