Developers are frustrated by the deployment delay caused by setting up permissions and firewall rules. Which of the following would be the BEST way to resolve this issue?

Automating security services - such as permission provisioning and firewall rule setup - integrates these controls directly into the CI/CD pipeline, removing the need for manual intervention at each deployment. This DevSecOps approach ensures security is applied consistently and instantly at each stage of the system life cycle, resolving the delay without reducing security posture.

ITIL v3 training and documentation improve process maturity but do not automate or eliminate the manual security configuration steps that are causing the deployment delays.

Escalating to a change manager or reorganizing the development team is an organizational measure that does not address the root technical cause of manual permission and firewall setup.

Outsourcing security services adds coordination overhead with a third party and does not inherently automate the specific permission and firewall provisioning steps causing delays.