http://www.idgconnect.com/blog-abstract/9656/the-marriage-devops-secops
By IDG Connect
March 24 2015
This is a contributed article by Tim Prendergast, Founder & CEO of
Evident.io
The rise of cloud computing brings many exciting changes to the technology
industry: elastic scalability of resources, commodity pricing, freedom to
experiment, and a newfound love for agile philosophies. Thankfully, the
cloud is leaving behind the constraints and practices of the legacy
security industry. Here lies an exciting opportunity: with the rise of
DevSecOps, we get to truly redefine how operations, engineering, and
security can be brought together in harmony to achieve unparalleled
success.
In the past, organizations kept the domains of engineering, operations,
and security separate for scalability and accountability reasons.
Preventing engineering and operations from intermixing guaranteed that
production environments were held to a higher standard of reliability,
resiliency and consistency than that of engineering environments like
those used for development and testing.
However, in the last few years, the evolution of DevOps philosophies has
really taken the industry by storm. DevOps is not exactly new -- it’s
arguably a manifestation of the scientific method in our field (computer
science): observe, hypothesize, predict, and experiment (test). This maps
neatly to the Learn, Build, Measure principles from the Lean Startup: a
DevOps Bible. It’s easy to see how structured, proven methods for
improving things, like technology, can propel a business forward. These
methods are an improvement compared with legacy practices that often
included gut feelings, flawed data samples, and other such inaccurate
methodologies.
DevOps pays big dividends for progressive organizations. Rapid delivery of
infrastructure, code, and data has enabled a cornucopia of startups to
flourish by capitalizing on customer feedback 100 times faster than
incumbent players. Deep telemetry of systems, user experiences, and
behaviors has helped organizations better serve their customers and
predict their growing needs. Transparency around challenges has endeared
customers to many disrupters, as they build a level of trust and
understanding that is hard to capture via other means.
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