defender-for-devops

Integrate Microsoft Defender for DevOps into Azure Pipelines by adding the MicrosoftSecurityDevOps task to your YAML configuration, enabling automated SAST, secret detection, dependency, IaC, and container scanning. Results are reported directly to Defender for Cloud.

Defender for DevOps supports comprehensive security scanning including SAST, secret detection, dependency vulnerability assessment, IaC security analysis, and container image vulnerability scanning within your CI/CD workflows.

Yes, Defender for DevOps vulnerability management breaks Azure Pipelines builds on critical findings. This ensures only secure code is deployed to production by automatically halting builds when severe vulnerabilities or hardcoded secrets are detected.

Yes, Microsoft Defender for Cloud works with Azure DevOps by receiving vulnerability management findings reported directly from your pipeline. This centralizes DevSecops visibility for code, dependencies, IaC, and container security issues.

The best way to automate secret and dependency scanning is integrating Defender for DevOps into your Azure Pipelines YAML. This automatically checks application code and dependencies for known vulnerabilities and hardcoded secrets during every build.