KPIs

KPIs help in measuring our goals and their priority. KPIs help us get to the point we wish to reach in the stipulated time. The whole DevOps phase or DevSecOps works in tandem to move to production. It depends on us where we want to take them.

Before moving toward these KPIs, we must ask ourselves some questions:

• Are we testing all the application’s features before pushing them to security?
• Are we educating our developers around security processes and tools, rather than forcing security upon them?
• What software development processes are we following?
• Do we just follow the OWASP Top 10, or have we created a certain process for that?
• How frequently is security being called in the SDLC?

All these questions take us to points where we can start thinking about taking our first step toward setting up the right processes and moving toward the best practices.

Some of the key KPIs for DevSecOps processes are as follows:

• Figuring out the amount of open source code that’s used in the code – that is, third-party libraries and dependencies.
• Where do we stand on automation processes?
• Are the tools aiding in having a smooth software pipeline?
• Are we able to reduce the bugs in the pipeline by fine-tuning it?
• How frequently are we fixing bugs?

These are just some of the parameters you need to consider; stay tuned for more detailed information.