Most security audits happen too late ? after code is in production. DevSecOps shifts security left, catching vulnerabilities where theyre cheapest to fix: in the developers PR.
**Why shift left matters**
A vulnerability found in development costs roughly 6x less to fix than one found in production. Automated security checks in CI/CD make finding issues early the default, not the exception.
**The DevSecOps pipeline layers**
*SAST (Static Analysis):*
Analyse source code for known vulnerabil