DevSecOps is an approach that makes security a shared responsibility across development, security and operations teams. Security checks are automated and built into the delivery pipeline, so every change is tested for vulnerabilities and policy violations as part of normal work, not in a separate review at the end.
DevSecOps vs DevOps. DevOps joins development and operations to ship faster and more reliably. DevSecOps adds security to that loop as an equal owner, with security checks automated in the same pipeline. The goal is to keep the speed of DevOps without accepting more risk.
A typical DevSecOps pipeline runs static analysis, dependency and SBOM checks, secrets detection and infrastructure as code checks on every pull request. For Ansible and Terraform, Steampunk Spotter is the infrastructure code step in that toolchain. It enforces custom policies, CIS benchmarks and compatibility rules before code is merged.
