The adoption of DevOps, agile and public cloud services among businesses worldwide is increasing by the day. These are seen as the major shift in enterprise IT, and as the next wave after Internet. Thanks to digital democratization, due to which businesses have to be nimble to remain competitive. That said, security threats and cybercrime continue to outsmart this business despite having cutting-edge security wall around them. To this end, DevSecOps was born to bridge the security gap into DevOps, just as DevOps bridged the development and operations divide.
Plugging in the right chord: Security into DevOps, on the cloud
Business leaders now understand that moving to the cloud is not just any tech adaptation, but it is more about speed of service delivery and dynamic scalability. One of the most significant paybacks of the DevOps has been better software quality delivered faster, even on the cloud.
Cloud technology dissolves enterprise perimeter, the key construct around which security solutions have been developed. Earlier,security concerns were holding back many businesses from jumping on to the cloud bandwagon. And when the idea of perimeter and boundary was once again threatened by new security requirements such as those warranted by Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies, the IT industry slowly started to embrace the cloud. Security professionals are now leveraging real-time analytics and have also adopted “Continuous Security” in clear parallel to the “Continuous Integration” and “Continuous deployment” approach of the DevOps movement.
Image Source: RSAConference, 2016, DevSecOps In Baby Steps
DevSecOps Tools: Filling in the Security Gap
Many enterprises have started to explore ways of making application quality and security testing more scripted, continuous, and automated. With DevSecOps, they are taking an automation approach for security tests throughout development, even on the cloud. They are even integrating security-feature design and implementation into the development lifecycle in ways that wasn’t possible before.
With DevSecOps on the cloud, security becomes an essential part of the development process itself instead of being an afterthought.
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