Every day there is a new discovery that hackers use to disrupt a company’s systems, obtain critical data and information, or steal money. Ironically, it’s often a tiny bit of code that helps the organization execute a minor piece of work, which ends up being the source of a larger problem (e.g., logging, report service, and glue for application). These scenarios often have CEOs and corporate leaders asking themselves questions, such as:
The unknown can be daunting, but imagine a system where:
That is the promise of a trending practice called DevSecOps, which stands for development, security, and operations. DevSecOps is an approach that integrates security at every phase of the software development lifecycle. It requires complete alignment between development, operations, security, and the business. In doing so, it influences cultural shifts, changes processes, and aligns technology across the organization.
DevSecOps works best when an organization adopts Agile practices to quickly enable continuous integration, deployment, and scaling. It can be a long journey to obtain a streamlined process, but when executed correctly, DevSecOps best practices speed up time to market and lowers cost for the business. Not to mention, it can beat those worries about code snippets into submission!
To reduce risk to the organization, it is not enough to have technology be the keepers of security. Executives and security leadership need to drive the point that “security is everyone’s job” and they need to set the risk appetite for the company. Technology and security should partner in their processes to ensure that applications can be built with having known vulnerabilities mitigated early in the development process and well-before an application being deployed in production. Using that same marriage with operations, security routines should be in place to feed new vulnerability findings into the pipeline for remediation.
Implementing a DevSecOps strategy isn’t a silver bullet, and it certainly won’t happen overnight. Why is it so challenging? Leading with a DevSecOps approach can result in a significant culture shift within the organization that challenges the status quo for how many departments work.
Here are some examples of current obstacles professionals implementing DevSecOps run into:
It’s not an easy feat to overcome these challenges, but it can be done. When you implement changes to align with DevSecOps best practices, every step counts. Once this process is fully enabled in your organization, you can expect code to be developed with significantly fewer defects and security risks. Eventually, it will cost less to deploy code and at a rate which will benefit the business to obtain higher return on investments. Systems that are developed in this process will be much more nimble and able to adapt to threats and change.
To learn more tips for making cybersecurity a business imperative, download The State of the Security Team 2022 global research report. The data and statistics reveal compelling insight into the current challenges security teams face, plus the ways executives can help teams overcome these challenges to better benefit the business.
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