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Security can no longer be an afterthought in software development. DevSecOps—integrating security into every phase of the DevOps lifecycle—ensures that security is built into CI/CD pipelines rather than bolted on as an afterthought. This approach helps organizations reduce vulnerabilities, meet compliance standards, and accelerate secure software delivery.
But implementing DevSecOps at scale isn’t easy. Many organizations struggle with:
Balancing speed and security: Traditional security checks slow down releases while skipping them increases risk.
Siloed teams and processes: Security, development, and operations often work separately, leading to inefficiencies.
Lack of automation: Manual security processes create bottlenecks and inconsistencies.
Limited visibility and governance: Without real-time insights, security risks go unnoticed until it’s too late.
This is where Harness and Avyka step in. Harness provides an intelligent, security-first software delivery platform that automates DevSecOps, CI/CD, and feature management. Avyka, with deep expertise in DevSecOps transformation, helps companies strategically deploy, optimize, and scale security-driven development.
In this blog, Avyka’s DevSecOps experts share practical insights on embedding security into your CI/CD pipelines, eliminating friction, and scaling secure software delivery with Harness.
Understanding DevSecOps Maturity
DevSecOps maturity measures how well security is woven into an organization’s software development lifecycle (SDLC) without sacrificing speed or efficiency. As organizations grow, achieving maturity is essential for minimizing security threats, ensuring compliance, and accelerating software releases.
The maturity journey typically follows four stages:
Basic Security Practices: Security testing is reactive, manual, and often a bottleneck.
Integrated Security: Security checks are embedded in CI/CD pipelines with automated scanning and compliance validation.
Automated Governance: Policies are enforced as code, ensuring consistency and reducing human intervention.
Full Automation & Continuous Improvement: Security is deeply integrated across all development processes, monitored in real-time, and continuously optimized.
Organizations must align CI/CD, feature management, and governance to reach full maturity to create a seamless, automated security framework. By decoupling deployments from feature releases, teams can reduce risks, deploy security updates efficiently, and enforce policies through automation.
How Harness Enables DevSecOps Transformation?
Harness simplifies DevSecOps adoption by embedding security into CI/CD workflows, automating governance, and enabling rapid, secure deployments. Key capabilities include:
1. Security-First CI/CD Pipelines
Automates vulnerability scanning, secret detection, and compliance enforcement.
Eliminates the need for manual security interventions, reducing delays and risks.
2. Feature Management & Progressive Delivery
Allows controlled, secure feature rollouts to mitigate security risks.
Reduces the blast radius of security-related changes by gradually deploying updates.
3. Policy-as-Code & Governance Enforcement
Ensures security policies are consistently applied across all environments.
Eliminates human error by enforcing governance through automated policy execution.
4. Continuous Verification & Risk Mitigation
Monitors deployments in real time, identifying security risks before they escalate.
Automatically rolls back deployments if anomalies or threats are detected.
Avyka's Expertise in Driving DevSecOps Maturity
Avyka specializes in helping organizations implement, scale, and optimize DevSecOps with Harness. With deep expertise in security automation, compliance, and risk management, Avyka ensures a structured, scalable approach to DevSecOps maturity.
Our process includes:
Security Automation & Compliance: Embedding security validation, policy enforcement, and compliance monitoring into CI/CD pipelines.
Risk Mitigation Through Feature Management: Leveraging feature flags and progressive delivery to minimize security-related disruptions.
Custom DevSecOps Frameworks: Designing security frameworks tailored to industry regulations and business needs.
Scaling DevSecOps Across Teams: Establishing best practices, training teams, and ensuring seamless adoption at scale.
A Phased Approach to DevSecOps Maturity With Harness & Avyka
Reaching DevSecOps maturity is a step-by-step process that requires a strategic roadmap. Harness and Avyka guide organizations through four transformation phases:
Phase 1: Implementing – Building the Foundation
Introduce security scanning within CI/CD pipelines.
Apply core security policies to code and dependencies.
Use feature flags to separate deployments from feature releases, reducing risk.
Phase 2: Managing – Strengthening Security Governance
Standardize security policies across teams.
Implement controlled feature rollouts for secure deployments.
Involve non-technical stakeholders in security enforcement.
Phase 3: Automating – Scaling Security & Governance
Automate security testing within CI/CD workflows.
Enforce governance policies as code for compliance and risk management.
Leverage automated feature flagging and progressive delivery for safer releases.
Phase 4: Scaling – Achieving Enterprise-Wide DevSecOps Maturity
Fully automate security and compliance monitoring.
Apply governance as code across all environments.
Enable continuous security validation through real-time risk detection and mitigation.
Harness provides the automation and governance framework, while Avyka ensures a tailored, scalable adoption strategy that aligns with business needs.
Getting Started with Harness & Avyka
Achieving DevSecOps maturity starts with assessing your current CI/CD security posture and defining a roadmap from initial implementation to full automation.
Harness streamlines this process with its security-first approach to CI/CD, feature management, and policy-as-code, ensuring security is embedded at every stage of software delivery. Avyka complements this by providing expert guidance to help companies implement, scale, and optimize DevSecOps with Harness.
If you’re ready to accelerate your DevSecOps transformation, reach out to Avyka today and discover how Harness can help you build a secure, automated, and scalable software delivery pipeline.
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