Across a hyper-digital corporate landscape where customer demands only ever grow in sophistication and urgency, organisations have had to find ways of delivering applications and services faster. Instrumental in helping achieve this speed of delivery has been – and continues to be - continuous integration and deployment, bolstered by cloud computing and automation.
However, powerful though these concepts are – especially when used in concert - each can impact security. Influenced by the evolving and multiplying regulatory responses to a digital age, IT systems have grown in complexity, meaning the approaches to keeping them secure have too.
For contemporary organisations that take cybersecurity seriously, the days of installing antivirus software and hoping for the best are over. Today, protecting IT estates is an interdisciplinary activity where every department and individual involved in delivering and maintaining a product must be involved.
No longer a litany of checklists and gates, today, absolute security is about behaviours, processes, and using technology as an enabler.
More specifically, it’s about DevSecOps.