DevSecOps & Security Automation
Integrate security into every stage of the CI/CD pipeline — shift security left with automated scanning, policy-as-code, and continuous compliance.
50 min•By Priygop Team•Last updated: Feb 2026
DevSecOps Pipeline
- Pre-Commit: Secret scanning (git-secrets, truffleHog) — prevent API keys, passwords, and tokens from entering version control
- Build Stage: SAST (Static Analysis) — SonarQube, Semgrep scan source code for vulnerabilities. Run on every PR, block merge on critical findings
- Dependency Scanning: SCA (Software Composition Analysis) — Snyk, Dependabot check for known vulnerabilities in third-party libraries (CVEs)
- Container Scanning: Scan Docker images for vulnerabilities — Trivy, Snyk Container, Prisma Cloud. Block deployment of images with critical CVEs
- Infrastructure as Code Scanning: Checkov, tfsec, KICS scan Terraform/CloudFormation for misconfigurations — open ports, unencrypted storage, public databases
- DAST (Dynamic Analysis): ZAP, Burp Suite scan running applications for vulnerabilities — OWASP Top 10 testing against staging environments
- Runtime Protection: Falco, Aqua Security monitor containers at runtime — detect unexpected processes, network connections, file modifications
Policy-as-Code
- Open Policy Agent (OPA): Define security policies as code — 'No containers can run as root', 'All S3 buckets must have encryption enabled'. Enforce at admission time
- Kubernetes Admission Controllers: Validate and mutate pod configurations before deployment — reject non-compliant workloads automatically
- Cloud Guardrails: AWS Service Control Policies, Azure Policies — enforce organization-wide rules (no public S3, no unencrypted EBS, only approved regions)
- Compliance-as-Code: InSpec, Cloud Custodian — continuously verify cloud resources meet security benchmarks (CIS, SOC2, PCI-DSS) and auto-remediate violations
- GitOps for Security: All security configurations in Git — changes require PR review, audit trail is automatic, rollback is a git revert