The Critical Role of Security in Implementation of DevSecOps

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The Critical Role of Security in
Implementation of DevSecOps
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• The lethal combination of social, mobile,
  analytics, and cloud has been a real game-changer
  in the way customers consume content,
  communicate, and select products services.
• This has resulted in organisations taking a
  different route to bring products services in
  the market quickly.
• This makes enterprises quickly adapt their
  applications, which has changed the way
  businesses are conducted.
• At the same time, cybersecurity threat is largely
  looming, where hacking has become quite easy.
  Some groups use sophisticated tools and software
  frameworks that can make their task more
  accessible, which has resulted in attacks that
  are more organised and sophisticated.
• There are also new devices that are coming up
  that has made speed a critical component. Here,
  DevOps has become a vital enabler required to
  develop and release applications at digital
  speeds.

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• With the help of DevSecOps, it is possible to
  integrate security into the DevOps approach
  seamlessly. Enov8 has created a four-step process
  to incorporate application security into DevOps.
• Our approach is based on our exclusive journey of
  IT test environment, which has led us to gather
  experience that has become vital in securely
  developing applications for hundreds of
  businesses across the globe.
• This collaborative approach gives impetus to the
  business value by providing a secure and
  high-quality application to business users at a
  rapid pace than a traditional, less collaborative
  approach.
• Lets now look at the process through the steps
  given below.

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• Define the Culture
• Recognising the need for culture change is
  exceptionally critical to adopt this process
  successfully.
• There needs to be a shift in the thinking and
  evolution in the way teams work to get the best
  results for the business. Typically, development
  teams concentrate on delivering new application
  features as soon as possible.
• They do not give a thought towards the security
  and reliability of the application.
• On the other hand, operation teams concentrate on
  stability and reliability, with less
  contemplation on the speed of delivery. And the
  application security teams focusing mainly on
  reducing risk. DevSecOps address these
  conflicting goals.
• It enables development, security, and operation
  teams to work in unison with the common goal to
  deliver high-quality value by building, testing,
  and releasing a stable and high-quality
  application. Here, swift delivery of business
  value makes you gain brownie points. However,
  everyone in the value chain is equally
  responsible for the security and reliability of
  the end product.

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Merge the Processes
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• Normally organisations treat application
  development comprising of release management and
  application security as two distinct processes.
• This can result in inaccuracies and inconsistency
  and can even have a disastrous effect on
  communication and collaboration within between
  the teams.
• With the help of a single, end-to-end process, it
  helps the team to work as a collective unit and
  decipher areas where automation can be applied to
  get the best results in the shortest time
  possible.
• Enhance Automation
• Once you have addressed the culture change and
  defined the integrated process, the next step is
  to ascertain parts of the process that can be
  automated to get consistency, quality, and speed.
  
• Automation is necessary however, for that, you
  have to document the pipeline, which can serve as
  a roadmap to guide in the automation engineering
  effort.

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• Increased Visibility
• The last step is to increase the information
  visibility of the business. Collect all the
  information throughout the stages of the software
  lifecycle for different projects and then
  scrutinise the effectiveness of the process.
• You can even capture application security testing
  information with the help of a centralised
  dashboard. This can prove to be decisive to
  monitor risks and find out the latest trends for
  the development and security managers.
• The information obtained can come in handy for
  the development managers to plan on how to reduce
  the security threats from the inception and find
  out the effectiveness of the training.
• This information can even be used as a benchmark
  to measure the effectiveness of the security
  controls used in the development process.

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Conclusion Enterprises are quick to recognise the
need to adopt DevSecOps to create highly secure
applications with a top speed. The key is to use
a proven approach that gives equal preference to
people, processes, and technology in ensuring a
collaborative culture.
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Contact Us

• Company Name Enov8
• Contact Person Ashley Hosking
• Address Level 5, 14 Martin Place, Sydney, 2000,
  New South Wales,
• Australia
• Email enov8australia_at_gmail.com
• Phone(s) 61 2 8916 6391
• Fax [phone]
• Website - https//www.enov8.com

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