Five keys to effective DevSecOps

Developers want to work within a fully automated pipeline, where they can write elegant, game-changing code. Their primary objectives are to increase the speed and agility with which they write and deliver software in order to drive value both externally to customers and internally across the organization. They have long viewed as speed bumps the legacy manual processes that companies have in place to govern and control their environments.

Managing security in a cloud-native, highly automated DevOps environment has become one of the great challenges among companies that develop and distribute software. Security teams have the painstaking job of ensuring that companies avoid negative headlines. They are the unsung heroes who work to protect sensitive customer data and limit the company’s exposure to hackers and other bad actors.

In its ideal state, DevOps should be supported by a single, cross-functional team working toward a common objective. However, with developers under increasing pressure to deliver code faster and faster, team priorities are too often misaligned. When problems arise company leadership leans on Operations—i.e., Risk—to assess and repair the damage, with an eye toward maximizing uptime and maintaining reliability through a suite of IT Service Management (ITSM) controls