Trends Report

Improve Cybersecurity With DevOps

DevOps Gives Security Professionals New Tools And Approaches

July 20th, 2015
Kurt Bittner, null
Kurt Bittner
Rick Holland, null
Rick Holland
With contributors:
Amy DeMartine , Christopher Mines , Derek Nahabedian , Kara Hartig

Summary

Organizations use applications to compete for customers; the faster they deliver those applications, the better they compete. Many application development and delivery (AD&D) pros are turning to development and operations (DevOps) to deliver applications faster, even though rapid delivery leaves some development leaders nervous about quality and cybersecurity. Done right, DevOps can actually improve cybersecurity, not compromise it. Just as DevOps enables organizations to improve quality by acquiring and acting on feedback earlier, DevOps improves cybersecurity by catching security flaws earlier in the delivery cycle and enabling organizations to respond faster to compromises. This brief describes how DevOps practices improve cybersecurity and what AD&D pros should do to get started.

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