Walking the Line: GitOps and Shift Left Security

In today's fast-paced world of software development, organizations are embracing modern processes to accelerate application deployment in the cloud. However, this rapid growth and dynamic nature of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) cycles present significant challenges for security teams.

As the concept of shifting security left to align with rapid development is widely discussed within the industry, many organizations struggle to put this theory into practice effectively. Misconfigurations in cloud-native environments often lead to security incidents, underscoring the need for security to be integrated EARLY into the development process.

To tackle these challenges head-on, it's crucial to explore the power of GitOps and shift left methodologies.

Delve into this comprehensive report, conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group (by TechTarget) to uncover trends, gain valuable insights, and discover strategic approaches that will empower you to shape your security strategy effectively.

Exclusive Insights from the current Developer-Focused Security Landscape

Discover the latest findings from ESG's comprehensive survey, where analyst Melinda Marks explored the perspectives of 350 influential IT and cybersecurity decision-makers, as well as hands-on application developers. This study focuses on individuals personally responsible for evaluating, purchasing, and utilizing developer-focused security products in thriving mid-market and enterprise organizations across North America (US and Canada).

Download the report now to discover:

How modern development processes are accelerating application deployment but also raising security concerns.
Why security needs to be seamlessly incorporated into development processes to mitigate risks effectively.
The intensifying cybersecurity landscape for cloud-native environments.
Strategies for inserting security measures into development processes without hampering productivity.
How organizations are incorporating proactive monitoring and security testing during development to minimize vulnerabilities.

Download White Paper

Here’s how we are helping developers to secure their code

GitGuardian is a great tool to improve security starting from the development. I greatly appreciated the pre-commit integration that allows developers to very easily prevent accidental commits.

Software Architect (51-1000 employees)

What I like the most about GitGuardian is the ability to automatically scan source code and detect leaked secrets. It has enabled us to add additional security control to our CI/CD pipeline, and enabled us to shift further left in the SDLC by implementing pre-commit hooks for developers to test their code before it is committed.

DevSecOps Engineer(1,000+ employees)

The perfect GitHub companion! It helps you track any sensitive data you may have shared in the repos, either public or private. Its algorithm is pretty advanced and I've never had any false positives.

Chief Technical Officer (51-1000 employees)

We have definitely seen a return on investment when it finds things that are real. We have caught a couple of things before they made it to production, and had they made it to production, that would have been dangerous. For example, AWS secrets, if that ever got leaked, would have allowed people full access to our environment. Just catching two or three of those a year is our return on investment.

Verified by

Security Engineer at a Tech Services Company

Overall, GitGuardian has also helped us develop a security-minded culture. We're serious about shift-left and getting better about code security. I think a lot of people in the organization are getting more mindful about what a hardcoded secret is.

Verified by

DevSecOps Engineer at a Computer Software company

Time to remediation is now in minutes or hours, whereas it used to take days or weeks previously. That's the biggest improvement. Because it is automated and visible to the author, someone from the security team doesn't have to remind them or recheck it. That means the slowdown in the deployment process has definitely been improved by an order of magnitude. There is easily a 30-hour improvement on time to remediation, which is about an 85 percent decrease.

Verified by

Chief Software Architect at a Healthcare Technology Provider

The solution has reduced our mean time to remediation. We are down to less than a day. In the past, without context, knowing who made the commit, or kind of secret it was, sometimes it was taking us a lot longer to determine the impact and what actions needed to be taken.

Verified by

Security Engineer at a Tech Services Company

I can say that tracking down a hardcoded secret, getting it migrated out of source code, getting the secret rotated, and cleaning the Git history took much longer from commit until the full resolution before GitGuardian. We weren't notified until it was too late, but with GitGuardian, we know almost instantly.

Verified by

DevSecOps Engineer at a Computer Software Company

Walking the Line: GitOps and Shift Left Security

Download White Paper

Exclusive Insights from the current Developer-Focused Security Landscape

Download the report now to discover:

GitGuardian helps these companies bring Dev. Sec. and Ops. together

Here’s how we are helping developers to secure their code