Organizations know they must begin introducing new features and new capabilities faster. That’s the push behind DevOps. But too often a heavy focus on maintaining security meant that productivity was being severely impeded. DevSecOps “shifts security left” and continually enforces security policies through development and into deployment and operations.

DevSecOps is quickly becoming the norm in commercial operations, and government operations should keep pace or they will miss the opportunity to develop more secure software.

Recently, Nimbus Consulting helped guide a key government agency component through the transition to a forward-leaning DevSecOps environment. The client needed a solution for an environment that had multiple systems under development being developed in a shared infrastructure. Over 50 teams were working with a loose collection of more than 30 development tools that were outmoded, not scalable, or were no longer being supported by vendors.