Modern DevSecOps Needs More Than One Tool: A Practical Secure SDLC Strategy

🧠 Background: Why Multiple Analysis Tools Became Necessary Not long ago, software delivery was simpler. Teams wrote code, ran a static analysis tool like SonarQube during the build, and deployed artifacts into controlled environments. Security checks were often centralized and performed toward the end of the release cycle, primarily focused on code-level defects. But modern software engineering has expanded far beyond source code. Today we ship containers, infrastructure-as-code, open-source dependencies, APIs, and increasingly AI-assisted code. Applications run across distributed systems and cloud-native platforms where risks can originate from many layers, base images, dependency chains, configuration drift, or exposed secrets. Because of this shift, relying on a single tool is no longer enough. Instead, teams need a layered analysis strategy, combining tools specialized for different risk areas across the SDLC. 🔄 Security Tools Significance Across the SDLC Modern engineering teams e