Eight top DevSecOps trends to support IT innovation in 2022

Article by Dynatrace vice president of A/NZ Hope Powers.


The use of DevSecOps practices is growing, as it is increasingly seen as the best way to produce high-quality and secure code. More than one-third (36%) of respondents to GitLab’s 2021 Global DevSecOps Survey reported developing software using DevSecOps, up from 27% in 2020.


This growth is driven by organisations realising that application quality and security are essential to their ability to streamline continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) and accelerate innovation. They need to balance pressure to develop software rapidly with the need to ensure it remains secure and is optimised for today’s cloud environments. This can be quite a challenge.


GitLab’s Fifth Annual Global DevSecOps Survey (2020) found 60% of developers are releasing code twice as fast by using DevOps. However, speed often comes at the expense of security. A survey of CISO leaders last year found that 71% of CISOs admit they are not fully confident code is free of vulnerabilities before going live in production.


To enable software to be developed rapidly and securely, DevSecOps teams need to automate all stages of the lifecycle. They need shared solutions and platforms that converge observability—the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics and traces—with security, so they can spot security gapsand identify poor quality code and other software development issues.


In a survey of 250 enterprises in the US and UK with more USD $1 billion in revenue, 96% of respondents expected to benefit by automating their compliance and security processes, a fundamental goal of DevSecOps.


As DevSecOps continues to gather momentum, here are some key trends. 


1. Infrastructure as code (IaC) uptake is rising


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