Cybersecurity definition
What is DevSecOps?
By Cyber Tool Stack Editorial TeamUpdated
Definition
A practice and culture that builds security checks directly into the software delivery pipeline — automated scanning, policy-as-code gates — rather than treating security as a separate review that happens after development is done.
Where DevSecOps fits in the security landscape
These beginner lessons use this term while explaining the surrounding security control.
Related cybersecurity terms
Shift LeftMoving security testing and review earlier in the software development process — into the IDE and pull request instead of a pre-release gate — so flaws are caught and fixed while they're still cheap to change.IaCInfrastructure as CodeDefining and provisioning infrastructure — servers, networks, cloud resources — through version-controlled configuration files like Terraform or CloudFormation instead of manual setup, which also means a misconfiguration can be scanned and caught before anything is ever deployed.