DevSecOps: Baking Security Into Every Deployment

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