Traditional security review versus DevSecOps
In a traditional model, security is reviewed once, near the end, often by a separate team with limited context on the codebase. By the time issues surface, they're expensive to fix and delay release. DevSecOps moves security checks earlier and makes them continuous — automated scanning, dependency checking, and policy enforcement run on every commit or build, not once at the end.
The practical building blocks
In practice, this usually means automated static and dependency scanning integrated into CI/CD, security requirements defined alongside functional requirements (not after), and a culture where engineers, not just a separate security team, are responsible for security outcomes.
How RETIS approaches this
RETIS's DevSecOps consulting typically starts with understanding your existing pipeline and tooling, then integrates security checks into that existing workflow rather than imposing an unrelated new process — the goal is security that moves at the same speed as your team, not a separate gate that slows releases down.
A practical checklist
- Does your CI/CD pipeline include any automated security scanning today?
- Are security requirements defined during planning, or only discovered during review?
- Is security considered "the security team's job" or shared across engineering?
- How long does a security-related fix typically take from discovery to deployment?
