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The benefit of embedding security scanning is that you can use Open Source tools like Checkov and completely customize the output to be passive or blocking, as you see fit. For example, you could configure builds to only fail if critical security flaws are found, but allow all less critical ones. Alternatively, you could start with simple alerting for training and education purposes, but not block builds until all developers know what to expect.


Your version control system also has some hidden security automation superpowers. For example, you can save a little time by integrating with a service that scans your code before running it in your CI/CD pipeline when you create new commits or pull/merge requests. Waiting for a build to complete only to have it fail isn’t the best use of time, so putting security safeguards in place earlier allows for more iterative feedback.

If you want to get security feedback as early as possible, there are ways and tools to do this without having to scan the code manually. Encourage developers to scan their files or directories before the code ecuador mobile database their local workstations. Some IDE plugins do this natively.

While these guardrails are more difficult to implement on a team, getting developers used to automating security on their own terms is a great way to create security advocates and encourage secure coding.

No matter where you add guardrails to your DevOps processes, security automation can help you automatically block vulnerable or insecure code and ensure that only code that has passed all checks and complies with all policies is deployed. This way, you can bypass the endless ticketing cycle and deploy fixes where they belong: in the source code.