Throughout the private sector and particularly in the financial services and banking sectors, DevSecOps and agile development continue to grow in importance among software development teams. Companies that have adopted an agile mindset and integrated best practices within their development teams have seen unprecedented growth, even during the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the 15th Annual State of Agile Report, 86 percent of organizations adopted agile methodologies for their development teams in 2020, up from 37 percent in 2019. Despite these gains, the public sector has been slow to adopt agile and DevSecOps approaches to software development. Across state, local, and federal government, agencies and organizations have struggled to adopt these best practices and have yet to capitalize on the ability to address secure development earlier in the software development life cycle (SDLC). By identifying opportunities to adopt an agile mindset and embrace a DevSecOps approach, agencies at all levels of government can improve the speed at which they deliver software while achieving better security outcomes.