Continuous Pipeline Security with Azure DevOps

In the ever-evolving software development landscape, integrating security into all stages of the development lifecycle has become of paramount concern. A weak link at any point in the process can provide a window of opportunity for a bad actor to compromise a system. This paper aims to present a comprehensive approach to implementing continuous security into the software delivery pipeline using Azure DevOps security. The proposed approach will focus on integrating protection at every stage of the development pipeline from coding, building, testing and deployment by using native Azure tooling and services to reduce the potential attack vector through correctly implemented role-based access control and best practices.