Software is an important aspect of digital transformation, and increasing software application adoption, be it mobile, web, or cloud-native applications, as a result of accelerated digital transformation has boosted the demand for innovation among software development life cycle (SDLC) developers and coders. To meet the need for faster innovation, more organizations are embedding a DevOps framework within their SDLCs.

Originally, the DevOps framework aimed to build a bridge between the development and operations teams throughout the SDLC development, testing, and delivery phases to reduce the friction often observed between the 2 teams. Nowadays, the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) concept forms the basis of the DevOps framework, connecting different processes and tools throughout different stages of the SDLC for organizations to develop software applications at a much more rapid pace.

However, this software development methodology cannot address the quality or security issues of software deployed at a fast speed, and the DevOps framework has not yet embedded security throughout the SDLC. As a result, software developers have to meet the need for faster innovation and navigate the complexity of DevOps security amidst the industry shift to DevOps. Increases in software supply chain attacks have shown that legacy software security approaches can no longer secure the DevOps model. Thus, company chief information security officers (CISOs) are seeking more robust DevOps security solutions to embed security throughout the whole SDLC, which will boost the cyber resilience of software supply chains and release secure software applications in the market.