A Practical Guide to Securing Software Delivery Without Slowing It Down
If you’re leading a platform or security function, you’ve probably seen this play out: more scanners, more alerts, more dashboards, but not more security. Instead, your developers are frustrated, your audits are painful, and you still don’t have a clear view of risk across your software delivery pipelines.
The global DevSecOps market is projected to reach $32.4 billion by 2030, driven by the need to secure a complex, fast-moving development landscape. But as organizations invest, many are making a critical mistake: simply adding more tools and calling it "DevSecOps."
This approach isn't working. A recent Forrester study found that 58% of security decision-makers noted that application-related exploits were the external attack vector that led to breaches. The problem isn't a lack of tools; it’s a lack of a unified strategy that consistently and automatically embeds continuous security into tools, teams, and environments.
What Continuous Security Isn’t
It’s not a collection of fragmented point solutions. Too many so-called “continuous” security programs still struggle with:
Alert Fatigue: Forcing developers to switch between multiple UIs and dashboards to get security feedback disrupts their flow. A recent Google DORA study found that while developers feel more productive with new tools, they are often still held back by organizational friction, which includes fragmented tools and slow communication.
Fragmented scanners across teams and repos: Individual tools deliver individualized, siloed results that flag duplicated issues that create redundant work. These tools are often triggered manually and left in the hands of developers to operate, creating an inconsistent security approach across the organization where vulnerabilities can easily fall through the cracks.
Manual evidence tracking for audits: Instead of being a seamless, continuous process, audit preparation becomes a chaotic, last-minute scramble. Security and compliance teams spend weeks manually pulling reports, taking screenshots, and collating data from disparate sources. This is not only time-consuming and inefficient but also prone to human error, potentially exposing the organization to compliance risks. The process is a drain on resources and a source of stress.
No clear view of overall risk posture: With different teams using different tools, there is no single, consolidated dashboard to see the full picture. Developers and platform leads might have visibility into a single repository or application, but lack a holistic view of the entire software supply chain. This means teams can't truly prioritize risk, allocate resources effectively, or answer the fundamental question: "How secure are we, right now?" This lack of centralized visibility leaves critical gaps in an organization's security strategy and decision-making.
And none of this leverages the full potential of AI within the software delivery lifecycle. Point scanners can detect flaws, but they cannot learn patterns of developer behavior, automatically reduce noise, or proactively enforce policies across thousands of pipelines. That’s where “continuous” breaks down today.
Sound familiar?
What It Is (When Done Right)
Continuous Security is about creating an intelligent, automated system that makes security an invisible, integrated part of your development process. It's about empowering your teams, not slowing them down.
CloudBees Unify helps you embed security into every stage of CI/CD without friction. It brings together your tools, teams, and policies into a single, intelligent control plane powered by AI-powered orchestration.
With CloudBees Unify, you get:
| Key Capabilities | Business Impact |
|---|---|
| One Control and Context Plane: Consolidate and deduplicate findings from SAST, SCA, IaC, and container scanners. | Stop the Noise: Give your security teams a unified, prioritized view of risk, and give developers a single source of truth for actionable issues. |
| Built-in Automation and Policy-as-Code: Automatically enforce security policies across all your pipelines. | Secure by Default: Eliminate manual gatekeeping and ensure compliance isn't an afterthought. Your pipelines become your security policy. |
| Developer-Friendly Triage: Surface security insights directly in the IDE enriched by AI-based prioritization and remediation suggestions | Boost Productivity: Reduce context-switching and empower developers to fix issues in the flow of their work. |
| Automated Evidence Generation: Continuously track security findings and policy enforcement. | Streamline Compliance: Eliminate the last-minute scramble for audits by generating an automated, always-ready audit trail. |
What It Solves
| Legacy Problem | CloudBees Unify |
|---|---|
| Multiple UIs, duplicated alerts | Unified, deduplicated dashboard with AI-driven prioritization |
| Manual audit prep | Dynamic, automated evidence generation |
| Alert fatigue and tool sprawl | Prioritized, actionable remediation |
| Dev friction and context switching | Inline guidance in familiar tools |
| Compliance chaos across teams | Centralized policy enforcement and SLA tracking and AI-driven audit readiness |
The Strategic Payoff
The benefits go beyond just fixing bugs. They are about creating a more resilient, efficient business.
Reduce Operational Costs: By avoiding tool sprawl and manual labor, you cut costs and reallocate security resources to more strategic work.
Increase Velocity: By making security a seamless part of the CI/CD pipeline and using AI agents to handle repetitive triage tasks, you accelerate secure releases and improve time-to-market.
Improve Audit Readiness: Transform compliance from a chaotic event into a continuous, automated process that builds trust with auditors and customers.
Elevate Developer Experience: By reducing cognitive load through AI-driven recommendations, developers spend more time innovating and less time chasing false positives.
TL;DR: Security That Works Like Your Dev Teams Do
If you’re responsible for scaling secure software delivery, it’s time to move past tool sprawl and compliance chaos. With CloudBees Unify, platform and security leaders gain a single control plane to embed security policies, streamline audits, and give developers actionable insights without slowing them down. It’s security that integrates with your existing tools, not security that forces you to rip and replace them.