Jit
The Only Open DevSecOps Orchestration Platform

As the cloud computing industry continues to grow, many software companies prioritize agility and growth at the expense of software safety and security. Looking to develop innovative software solutions without compromising security, these companies are turning to DevSecOps. This approach incorporates security into the software development process, enhancing SDLC operations and mitigating the likelihood of security vulnerabilities. By adopting DevSecOps, businesses can operate with increased confidence and security, and are empowered to create cutting-edge solutions while maintaining high safety and protection.

To effectively implement this developer-first, proactive security approach, businesses must thoroughly comprehend the security requirements involved in DevSecOps. This includes reconciling a diverse range of shift-left security tools and integrating security controls directly into their applications.

A company dedicated to enabling software firms to achieve this critical objective is JIT, a DevSecOps orchestration platform provider that facilitates the successful adoption of this innovative security methodology. JIT is fueling software development velocity by making it seamless and effortless for developers to ingrain continuous security in SDLC and ensuring every application is strengthened with minimal viable security (MVS).

“We make it ridiculously simple for high-velocity and progressive engineering teams to take ownership of product security while accelerating software development,” says Tsahy Shapsa, co-CEO and co-founder of JIT.

'Security-as-Code (SaC)'

Organizations can use JIT to adopt the ‘everyone is responsible for security’ mindset. By doing so, they can streamline their SDLC operations while maintaining the highest level of security protocols, in a timely and efficient manner. This gives developers total control over their product security without impeding development. JIT overcomes a crucial pain point through this approach; it breaks down the silos of security instruction, access to which has historically remained limited to security practitioners. To make it convenient for engineering teams to access this pivotal information, it translates security plans from documents to code (security-as-code) and adds them to users’ GitHub and Slack environments.

The code represents prerequisite measures from a security perspective for various technology stacks and organizational maturity levels. Developers can find a library of code templates within their data environment that includes DevSecOps strategies and select the one that resolves their dependency issues. These strategies are curated into highly efficient opensource security tool packages, allowing clients to focus on mission-critical tasks, instead of having to keep track of the latest technologies. JIT prepares the groundwork for developers to scale their DevSecOp practices while effectively addressing the emerging cybersecurity challenges inherent in SDLC.

Developer-Centric Approach Toward Simplifying OPSEC

Shapsa and his peers believe that in DevSecOps, innovation lies in simplicity. This philosophy is the bedrock of JIT’s operations. The team strives to improve the platform, simplify it, and make it more robust, with every client engagement, to enhance usability.

It regularly collects feedback and upgrades the DevSecOps platform. Since DevSecOps mandates using a robust suite of security tools and technologies for managing security threats in SDLC, businesses often install numerous platforms and manage them from different dashboards, creating a varied user experience for developers and slowing down SDLC. Resolving this concerning issue is JIT’s orchestration layer that unifies various shift-left platforms, packages them as a single security tool, and delivers a unified developer experience with two clicks and in under 60 seconds.

“We continuously work toward simplifying the UX, delivering a unified experience for developers in DevSecOps,” adds Shapsa.

Users can onboard different cloud, APIs, web, and application security tools from a centralized dashboard without individually installing and configuring them. By consolidating and orchestrating all security tools under a single pane of glass, businesses can streamline DevSecOps processes, accelerate developer workflow, and introduce other security products without impacting developer velocity.

“With our approach, we foster a ‘build, run, and secure it’ mindset,” says Ron Zalkind, co-CEO and co-founder. “JIT allows clients to add security controls as part of their automation and platform engineering and enables them to roll out these capabilities organization-wide with 100 percent coverage in a fraction of the time compared to a tool-by-tool rollout approach.”

Since JIT is a self-service platform, developers can deploy DevSecOps tools like SAST, DAST, IAST, and cloud security within minutes, a process that historically took months to execute. Once users activate the tools, JIT uses its proprietary centralized CI workflow technology to continuously monitor the whole SDLC environment and track every change. When developers modify the code, JIT intelligently invokes the most appropriate security tool, just-in-time, and automatically checks for vulnerabilities. A developer-friendly platform, it prioritizes alerts from multiple platforms and protects developers from alert fatigue. The orchestration platform also provides developers with remediation suggestions, simplifying the DevSecOp practices.

“Leaders frequently ask, ‘how do I make developers my first line of defense?’ To achieve this, we need to show them more than the issues. We need to show them solutions,” elaborates Shapsa.

JIT provides developers with the code to solve security vulnerabilities within their native developer workflows. Users can seamlessly integrate them into their SDLC coding and boost the security resilience of their applications. The firm also provides AppSec teams with performance and security metrics, giving them a holistic view of the security posture of their SDLC environment. The platform then benchmarks the scores against other market players and divides a client’s security practices into categories.

The JIT platform is extensively used by high-velocity progressive engineering organizations that deploy their code to production daily. Demonstrating the platform’s capability to serve development velocity is the firm’s engagement with a client with a 200-developer environment.

An example client case study, having invested in a different leading AppSec platform, could ensure only 25 percent security coverage in their AppSec programs. Having deployed four security tools from a single provider, developers experienced diverse user experiences, and the client’s AppSec program couldn’t reach its full maturity. After discovering JIT through a community forum, they rolled out the DevSecOps orchestration platform across hundreds of repositories and for all the developers in their SDLC environment, within a few minutes. The security coverage soared to a remarkable 100 percent, giving the AppSec team critical metrics into their performance. This success story is an impressive representation of the value JIT brings to the table and the long-standing expertise its team has in eliminating operational bottlenecks.

Jit allows clients to add security controls as part of their automation and platform engineering and enables them to roll out these capabilities organization-wide with 100 percent coverage

Shapsa, Zalkind, and Gil Zimmermann, director and co-founder of JIT, are also founding partners of FXP, a venture studio, that founds, funds, and fuels transformative companies. Over the years, the trio has founded companies like slim.ai and JIT.io in response to emerging market challenges.

They leverage their industry acumen and analytical expertise to analyze industry narratives and devise solutions to futureproof client operations. Recently, the team witnessed a trend where developers are looking for flexibility to determine the underlying tool to use in their orchestration platform. In addition to simplicity and unified user experience, developers want the ability to swap tools in and out of their DevSecOps environment without changing either the AppSec experience or the developer one. JIT caters to this demand by offering vendor-agnostic control frameworks where users can choose their tech stack and unify the execution of different tools, providing a simpler and consistent DevSecOps experience.

“We allow our users to stitch their DevSecOps toolchain together using any security product without waiting for vendor integrations, all while maintaining a single pane of glass for supervising their DevSecOps practices,” states Shapsa. Aiming to make the world a better place by securing the building blocks of society and the economies, JIT is making security non-negotiable in SDLC, helping businesses manage technical security debt, and simplifying continuous security.