Hello everyone. Welcome to Con 42. My name is, I'm a senior DevOps consultant with over 15 years of experience in IT industry. My areas of expertise include CICD automation, infrastructure as code cloud native solutions, and more recently governance and security within DevOps workflows. What I'm especially passionate about is helping teams build pipelines that are not just fast and automated, but also secure and compliant from the start. Today security can no longer be something we bolt on at the end of development. It's no longer enough to have a manual reviews, static checklist, or gates that delay delivery. As of infrastructure, applications and operations move faster, powered by automation and cloud native technologies and DevOps. Security must move just as fast. This is where security as code comes in. Security as code means. We input security principle and control directly into the code pipelines and infrastructure we deploy. It's about automating trust. It's about trading security, not as an obstacle, but as an integrated, continuous, and a measurable part of the way we build and run technology. Trey, I'm going to walk you through why security of code is essential, how we transform risk management into proactive discipline, and how organization that embrace it, not only safer, they are faster, more resilient, and better prepared for the future. Today's rapidly evolving software landscapes, security can no longer be an afterthought. Security as a code is revolutionizing how we approach software security by embedding it directly into the continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines. Instead of treating security as a post development task, security as a code automates checks. For the security within every phase of the development lifecycle, ensuring vulnerabilities are detected and addressed in real time. This integration not only ensures consistence, scalable security practices across all stages of our development, but only accelerate. Involve innovation by eliminating traditional security bottlenecks with security as a code, teams can focus on building features while maintaining a robust security posture, all without slowing down the deployment process. The true power of security as a code lies in its ability to offer a real time visibility into a system security posture. Enabling teams to proactively address risk before they escalate by scaling security alongside applications. Security as a code ensures that growing system can remain secure and resilient In the world where speed and agility are paramount, secure as a code is in just a best practice. It's essential enabler of fast, secure, and efficient after delivery. As we move forward, integrating security into our deployment pipelines is in just a choice, is the future of a secure software delivery. So what is the challenges that we have? The challenges is the speed versus security. In today's fast-paced software development, world speed is crucial. Businesses demand quicker delivery cycles to stay competitive, and teams are under constant pressure to release software faster than ever before. However. This agency often comes at a cost security. Traditional security approaches typically implemented as an afterthought, and at the end of development process create significant bottleneck that disrupts the flow of development and slow down the release cycles was still. Relying on manual and inconsistent security practices can lead to serious vulnerabilities slipping through the cracks and reaching production environments. This compromises both the speed of development and the safety of the product. The challenge then is finding a balance between the rapid delivery and a robust security, ensuring that innovation does not come at an expense of safeguarding against the risk. What is the impact of the security of the code Organization that successfully integrates security of a code into their development Practices are seeing remarkable results. In fact, studies show that significant percentage of organization that mature dev six ops programs have automated security frameworks directly embedded into their CI ICD pipelines. This not only enhances the security, but also leads to a faster remediation of critical vulnerabilities compared to the traditional security approaches. Security as a code drastically reduces the time it takes to address an issue. Enabling teams to fix vulnerabilities before they escalate into the bigger problems beyond quicker remediation, security as a code significantly improves the overall security posture of an enterprise. Those with a mature security support practices report far fewer security incidents and enhance compliances outcomes, reducing risk across the board. Additionally, by integrating the security seamlessly into the development process, organizations can accelerate delivery with their compromising the security standards. Team are able to deploy more frequently, keeping up the demand for a rapid release while maintaining a high level of safety. So what's the theoretical foundation of security of code as the heart of security as a code lies a foundation built on automation. I. Consistency and an early integration. One of the core principle of security as a code is ous feedback, automated security scans that provide developers with the immediate actionable insights. This approach ensures that security is continuously monitored and vulnerabilities are caught before they can even become issues. Additionally, security controls are treated as a first class artifacts, meaning they are codified. Version control and subject to peer review and rigorous testing. Just like any other piece of code, a key tenant of security as a code is a shift left principle, which most security integration earlier in the development life cycle. By addressing security from the beginning, organizations can avoid costly and time consuming remediation later in the process. Another foundational element is immutability. Security controls are defined once and deployed consistency across all environments, ensuring a uniform security posture. This is similar to the principle of infrastructure code where automated version control methodologies are applied to a security allowing for a greater consistency and reliability. Researchers show that organization embracing the immutable security controls experience 94. Percentage fewer security misconfiguration across environments and reduce compliances verification efforts by as much just 78 percentage. This data underscores how security as a code can significantly improve security posture while reducing optional complexity. What is the economics of a shiftless security? Let's talk about that. The financial impact of integrating security early in the development process is undeniable. Research reveals that vulnerabilities directed during the design phase cost an average of just approximately $25 to remediate. In contrast, this. Costs skyrockets is over $5,000 during the testing, and over approximately $15,000 during the implementation and a staggering cost of dollars 75,000 approximately during the production. This creates a dramatic 3000. Dollars fold 3000 times fold differences in the remediation costs between the earliest and the latest stages of detection. This tax contrast illustrates why adopting shift left security and burdening the security controls early. The development lifecycle makes not only technical sense, but also a financial sense. By identifying and addressing the security issues during the design phase, organizations can avoid escalating costs, reduce the risk of breaches, and ultimately save significant resources. This financial case reinforce the importance of prioritizing security for our outset, making it a critical component of a cost effective. Efficient development strategy. So let's talk about the implementation in the Jenkins pipeline. Implementing a security as a code in the Jenkin pipelines involves several key integrations that helps automate and enforce security throughout the development lifecycle. First, security scanning integration plays a crucial role by integrating static application security. Software COMPOSTION analysis, dynamic application security testing, and container scanning stages into your Jenkins pipeline. Using a declarative syntax, security scans are automatically triggered with every build. Ensuring vulnerabilities are identify early and next. The policy as a code implementation allows the teams to define security vulnerabilities in the declarative languages. These policies verify configuration and enforce compliances automatically ensuring. Security standards are consistently applied across all the environments. The secret management is also critical By implementing a secure credential storage and a retrieval mechanism, teams can prevent exposure of a sensitive information, ensuring that credentials are security handled throughout the pipeline. Finally, compliance verification is integrated by defining compliance's rules as a code, which are then validated during the pipeline execution. This ensures that every artifact passing through the pipeline is compliant with the necessary regulatory and the security standards, offering a realtime feedback to the developers and mitigating the compliances risk. So what's the security scanning benefits? The security scanning benefits. Integrating security scanning tools into the Jenkins pipeline can dramatically enhance an organization's security posture. Research shows that organizations leveraging these tools identify vulnerabilities 17 times faster than those relying on a periodic manual. Security reviews. This period is crucial, especially as a gap between the vulnerability, discovery, and the active exploitation continues to shrink in today's rapidly evolving threat landscape. By incorporating automated scans, vulnerabilities can be detected and remediated much easier. By much earlier, significantly reducing the risk of breaches. The comprehensive coverage is another major benefit. By utilizing a combination of a scanning approaches, our organization gains robust protection against a wide range of threat vectors. Static application security testing to identify. An average of 26 potential vulnerabilities per thousand lines of code, offering a deep insight into the code quality and the security f flos software. COMPOSTION analysis scanners focus at evaluating third party dependencies, which make up around 80% of modern application code. Ensuring that known vulnerabilities in these components are flagged before they cause harm. Lastly, the container scanning has proven to be highly effective in preventing 60% of the security incidents that stem from deploying uns scanned or insecure container images. This comprehensive approach ensures that security is embedded throughout the development pipeline, providing defense against a wide variety of risk. So what's the organizational transformation on this? The shift of a security as a code doesn't just impact the technology. It drives the organizational transformation as well. One of the most significant changes is the breakdown of silos between security and the development teams. Study shows that 78 percentage or 79 percentage of organization reports significantly improved collaborations between these team resulting in a faster delivery of a secure applications. This collaboration is essential for ensuring that security is integrated seamlessly into every stage of the development cycle, reducing the friction and the accelerating time to the market. Another critical shift is in the security role evaluation. I'm sorry. So evolution security professionals are transitioning from being gatekeepers to enablers as an automation and a security scanning take over manual reviews. Security teams spend around 62% less time on the manual task and are able to focus 48% of most strategic architecture planning. This allows them to focus on a proactive security measures, aligning securities with the business goals. In tandem, developers are gaining ownership of the security with the right tooling and training developers are now solving 77 percentage of security issues on their own without needing to involve a security team. This shift of culture empowers developers to take responsibility for security early in the development cycle. Finally, organizations are seeing improved metrics with over 75% of reduction. In the meantime to remediate the vulnerabilities, significantly shrinking the windows of exposure to the potential threats. So what are the challenges on the implementation on these? While security as a code offer numerous benefit, its implementation is not without challenges. Technical complexity is one of the most significant hurdles. Research shows that 78% of organization face substantial technical obstacles. In their DevSecOps journey. With the complexity of tool integration being the primary challenge, a key issue is that only 36% of security tools offer robust API capabilities, sustainable or suitable for the C seamless integration into the CICD pipelines, making it a difficult to automate security checks effectively and consistently. Another critical challenge in the skill gap, a striking 82% of organizations site. Talent shortages as a major obstacle. Effective security as a code implementation requires an expectance in the development, security, and the automation. A skillset that is often difficult to find in the traditional roles without the right talent organization struggles to implement and maintain the security as a code practices effectively for companies in the highly regulated industries. Government requirements present. Another big challenge. 67% of these organizations reports extend the timelines for security as a code implementation. During to compliance concerns, auditors unfamiliar with the audit date or automated security controls often face difficulties in understanding and validating these controls, which can slow down the adoption process. Lastly, cultural resistance is common. 71% of security professionally, initially worried about that automation will diminish their role. While 68% of developer resist adding extra pipeline steps, fearing that it may slow down the delivery, overcoming these cultural barriers is crucial for a successful implementation of so security as a code. So let's talk about the adaption journey. The journey of a security of a code unfolds in several distinct phases, each with its own set of challenges and opportunities during the resistance phase. The first 90 days team often questions the business value of security as a code raise concern about the technical complexity and the fear that will be slowing down the delivery cycles by up to 23 percentage. In fact, 84% of organization reports facing initial pushback. This phase is crucial for addressing concerns, demonstrating the value of security as a code, and aligning the stakeholders in an experimented phase About 92, 180 days, teams begin to implement the targeted pilots integrating two to three baseline security tools. These early efforts often result in 41 percentage of detection, rate of vulnerabilities with minimal disruption and existing pipeline. This stage is focused on testing, learning, and refining the security process before broader implementation by the acceleration phase. 180 to 1 365 days. Security as a core option expands significantly with 65% of development teams implementing compressive and comprehensive security control, including the S-A-S-D-D-A-S-D, and SCA tools. This results in a 57% of reduction in the critical vulnerability, showcasing the power of security as a code in a significantly improving security while maintaining the development velocity. Finally, in the optimization phase, that is beyond the 365 days mark team focus on streamlining the process and reducing the inefficiency. False positives drop by 60 percentage. The organization established a matrix dive and governance that shows a 79% of improvement in overall security posture. High performing organization accelerate their journey through three key strategies. First, by established in the dedicated center of excellence, which is 71% of successful organization. Implement the second one by investing in the robust developer security training averaging around 32 hours annually per developer. And the third by creating an incentive programs that reward secure coding practices with measurable results. So what's the future of security as a code Looking ahead, security as a code is PO to evolve beyond its current practices. Driving even greater security automation under RES today, security has a code implementation focus on foundational practices like a basic scanning integration, policy enforcement, and the security management within the CICD pipelines. These foundational practices ensure that security is embedded early and continuously throughout the development lifecycle, providing essential safeguard of the applications as we move forward. The evolution of a security code will introduce more advanced practices such as a security Charles engineering, and a continuous verification in this generation, security controls will undergo a regular testing through SI simulated attack within the pipeline, allowing teams to assess and effectiveness of the security measures in the real time. This dynamic, proactive approach will ensure. Security is continuously validated and reinforced as a part of development cycle, not just the point of a deployment. Looking even further into the future, AI driven security automation will transform and landscape. Emerging technologies will enable predictive vulnerability detection, offering an early warnings before the vulnerabilities even emerge as well, and automated remediation suggestions that allows the team to quickly address potential risk content. Context of our security policies will be enforced across the entire development lifecycle, ensuring that security measures evolve dramatically, drastically, and dynamically with the changing needs of a application and the threat landscape. As deployment environments grow increasing complex and the threat landscape evolves, the automation consistency and the scalability offered by the security as a code will become indispensable. For organizations, this capability will enable teams to maintain both security and the agility, ensuring that software delivery remains fast, reliable, and safe, ever-changing digital world. That should be all for now. 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