diff --git a/products/devex/cd/overlays/staging/backend-config.yaml b/products/devex/cd/overlays/staging/backend-config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..258d10ef7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/products/devex/cd/overlays/staging/backend-config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+apiVersion: cloud.google.com/v1
+kind: BackendConfig
+metadata:
+  name: devex
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: devex
+spec:
+  securityPolicy:
+    name: gke-d-staging-01-ase1-security-policies
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/products/devex/cd/overlays/staging/kustomization.yaml b/products/devex/cd/overlays/staging/kustomization.yaml
index 87148c910..a5f70d1b0 100644
--- a/products/devex/cd/overlays/staging/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/products/devex/cd/overlays/staging/kustomization.yaml
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ kind: Kustomization
 
 resources:
   - ../../base
+  - backend-config.yaml
   - certificate.yaml
 
 patches: