DevSecOps typically performs well when there is already an established foundation of automation, CI/CD, and collaboration within the DevOps environment, since DevSecOps relies on DevOps to work correctly. Although you can implement security processes by themselves, if your current DevOps processes are inefficient, security processes will typically be inefficient, slow, and manual; they will not be part of the delivery pipeline.
Security tools play an important role in this process by enabling teams to perform checks early in the development process. Security tools such as SAST, DAST, container scanning, secrets management, and cloud security tools help teams to identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations and to protect credentials before deploying their applications to production. Therefore, the ultimate goal of these tools is to incorporate security into the workflow instead of adding security as an afterthought.
To strike a balance between security risk and speed of delivery, organizations automate as much as possible with a focus on continuous checks rather than extensive manual approvals and authorizations. By using an automated approach for testing and validating the security of their applications, organizations can continue to leverage the DevOps fast delivery model while ensuring that they have improved security throughout their entire software development process.