Security‑First Iteration and Feedback Loops in Cloud‑Native DevOps

In many cloud‑native teams, iteration is driven by velocity and feature completion, while security‑related lessons are scattered across separate postmortems and meetings. A security‑first iteration model builds explicit feedback loops into every sprint: after each release and incident, the team reviews what security issues surfaced, updates golden‑path templates, CI/CD gates, and observability rules, and then re‑tests those changes against the same failure mode.