Integrating business risk management into DevSecOps is essential for secure, efficient, and compliant software delivery.
This webinar explores how to map business needs to security competencies, align them with DevOps workflows, and ensure traceable, collaborative, and risk-aware software development.
What Does the Business Want from DevSecOps?
Business stakeholders prioritize cyber resiliency, compliance, and revenue growth when evaluating software delivery.
To meet business goals, DevSecOps must:
- Ensure systems can recover from cyber incidents (resiliency)
- Prove alignment with regulatory requirements (compliance)
- Accelerate time to market and reduce costs (revenue)
Each of these areas introduces tension between speed and risk. DevOps teams must provide real-time risk metrics that speak the language of business, not just technical outputs.
How Do Competencies Enable Business Objectives?
Strategic security competencies translate business priorities into actionable programs and KPIs.
Using frameworks like NIST NICE, organizations can align core competencies to business needs:
| Business Need | Example Competencies |
|---|---|
| Resiliency | Threat analysis, incident response |
| Compliance | Security governance, policy management |
| Revenue | Secure architecture, automation |
These competencies feed into value streams and influence how DevOps teams prioritize work.
How Do You Map Competencies to DevOps Value Streams?
Mapping strategic competencies to DevOps processes ensures traceable execution of security and compliance goals.
Key value streams include:
- Strategy to Portfolio: Translates business strategy into technical requirements
- Requirements to Deploy: Builds and validates secure software artifacts
- Incident to Resolution: Responds to problems and integrates learnings
Each stream includes security checks, such as attestation, SAST/DAST scans, or threat models, aligned with business KPIs.
How Do You Align Security, DevOps, and Business Teams?
A unified platform and security fabric help synchronize development, operations, and compliance efforts.
Traditionally siloed teams must collaborate using shared tooling, artifacts, and monitoring:
- Strategy documents and security initiatives trace through requirements and test cases
- Incidents become new security requirements
- Risk exposure is monitored and shared across teams
This integrated fabric allows regular validation and provides meaningful Assurance back to business leaders.
What Are the Key Takeaways for Managing DevSecOps Risk?
Security and compliance must be embedded across the SDLC with business alignment at every stage.
Key recommendations:
- Strengthen assurance: Map security actions to business value (e.g., ISO 27001, PCI)
- Reframe security: Position it as a quality and resilience enabler, not a blocker
- Foster collaboration: Use champions, shared goals, and cross-functional KPIs
- Train both sides: Help developers understand risk; help businesses grasp technical dependencies
- Automate wisely: From threat modeling to compliance reporting, support human oversight
Final Thoughts: From Siloed Functions to Shared Accountability
DevSecOps is no longer just a technical concern — it’s a business-critical discipline.
Organizations that treat secure development as an enterprise-wide concern, with shared language and mutual accountability, will be better positioned to deliver resilient, compliant, and valuable software at scale.