Strengthening Your Agency’s Web Apps
Fortunately, the right mix of strategies and tools can keep agencies safe from resilience-damaging security incidents.
Fortunately, the right mix of strategies and tools can keep agencies safe from resilience-damaging security incidents.
By secrets, we don’t mean your friend’s surprise party or an old family recipe.
Playbooks are familiar territory for sports teams and agencies alike. As basketball teams have trotted out motion – instead of isolation – offenses, agencies have taken a page of the same principle: that all parts of IT should be moving in unison.
As agencies bring more agility to services development and delivery, they risk increasing vulnerability if they don’t also take a more agile approach to security.
Culture is the number one success factor in adopting DevSecOps. An expert identified four key attributes of a good DevSecOps culture.
Although DevSecOps has the potential to unify work across teams while reducing the time to develop and deploy applications, that’s not a guarantee, as many agencies have discovered.
As agencies adopt a DevOps methodology, they need to adapt their approach to application security. It’s not just about “shifting left,” it’s about approaching security with a DevOps mindset.
Because the DevOps environment is so dynamic, security can keep up only if it is fully integrated into the day-to-day work of developers.
“As government adoption of DevOps increases, there are numerous lessons to take away in terms of automating legacy processes that have many slow and manual interventions detrimental to the success of DevSecOps.”
DevSecOps features continuously delivering high-quality software by combining software development, IT operations and security into one process.