DevOps Risks and Challenges

DevOps vs. DevSecOps

Fundamentally, the difference between DevOps and DevSecOps is simple: while DevOps performs security checks at the end of the SDLC, DevSecOps automates and codifies security throughout the entire SDLC from beginning to end. 

Generally, with DevOps, security was something that happened at the end of development. Security issues may be detected at the QA — or even production  — stage of development, but generally not sooner. 

With DevSecOps, enterprises implement security checks at every stage of the CI\CD pipeline. Security is a priority during planning and design. Unit tests and static application security testing (SAST) ensure security in early development. Source composition analysis (SCA) helps detect security risks in libraries and dependencies. Black box security scans validate the security posture of every environment. 

How CloudGuard enables enterprises to address DevOps risks and challenges

Check Point CloudGuard for DevSecOps provides enterprises with a holistic platform to help address DevOps risks and challenges.  Specifically, CloudGuard offers enterprises:

• A wide range of DevSecOps tooling to automate and codify security: CloudGuard includes multiple DevSecOps tools that enable enterprises to automate and codify key security functions and shift security left. For example, continuous code scanning helps enterprises immediately detect and remediate insecure code before it makes it to production. Similarly, infrastructure as code (IAC) scanning helps automatically enforce custom and regulatory security policies across enterprise infrastructure. 

• Deep visibility across multi-cloud and hybrid environments: CloudGuard is purpose-built for modern enterprise environments with security perimeters that span multiple cloud environments and vendors. With CloudGuard Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) enterprises can automate governance and improve visibility across all their cloud assets using features such as security posture assessment and visualization, misconfiguration detection, and enforcement of compliance policies. 

• Robust container and K8s security: CloudGuard provides enterprises with a variety of features to reduce risk across their container workloads. Image assurance leverages CI tooling to prevent insecure image deployment, admission controller sets guardrails and policies to protect K8s clusters, and runtime protection proactively detects and blocks threats across container lifecycles. 

• Simple integration and management: With CloudGuard, enterprises gain a single point of control for security across a multi-cloud environment which simplifies security management and reduces the possibility of costly errors and oversights. Additionally, with support for over 300 cloud native service integrations, CloudGuard seamlessly integrates with a wide variety of tools and platforms modern enterprises depend on.
• Threat detection and prevention using contextual AI: CloudGuard’s application security powered by contextual AI provides enterprises with an automated and intelligent approach to appsec and API protection. With contextual AI, enterprises don’t need to define specific rules or waste time tuning policies, leading to lower TCO. Additionally, CloudGuard’s intelligent threat detection provides precise threat mitigation to reduce false positives without compromising security. 

If you’d like to see what CloudGuard can do for your enterprise, sign up for an application security demo today. Alternatively, if you’d like to quantify the security issues in your environment for free, sign up for a no-cost Cloud Security CheckUp.