defender-for-devops

What problem does it solve?

This Skill integrates Microsoft Defender for DevOps into your Azure Pipelines, enabling automated security scanning of your code, dependencies, IaC, and container images to identify and remediate vulnerabilities before deployment.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Comprehensive Scanning: Automates SAST, secret detection, dependency scanning, IaC scanning, and container scanning.
• Pipeline Integration: Seamlessly adds security checks into your CI/CD workflows.
• Vulnerability Management: Breaks builds on critical findings and reports results to Defender for Cloud.
• Use Case: Automatically scan your application's code and its dependencies for known vulnerabilities and hardcoded secrets during every build, ensuring only secure code is deployed to production.

Quick Start

Integrate Microsoft Defender for DevOps into your Azure Pipeline by adding the MicrosoftSecurityDevOps task to your YAML configuration.