The level of competition driven by digital disruption is intense. Coping with the demand for application delivery life cycles measured in seconds — with shrinking resources and increased complexity — requires a new approach. To compete today, leaders are automating application delivery to operationalize their competitive advantage.
Using a DevOps approach, companies can deliver applications faster, at a higher level of quality, and at a lower cost. In fact, a study by McKinsey found that companies that embrace an agile DevOps approach to development, testing, and operations see an 83 percent improvement in time to market, 90 percent faster updates to servers, and a near 50 percent reduction in handoffs per process.
As organizations “shift left” (test early and often in the software development life cycle process) to improve agility, this naturally creates new challenges and exposes different bottlenecks in their DevOps processes. For example, compliance and security remains a manual, ad‐hoc activity at the end of a release, which forces tough decisions about risk acceptance versus costly late code fixes. Furthermore, cloud adoption and containerization introduce mode‐two (new and innovative) resources into these processes that create real security and compliance gaps that most organizations haven’t considered. Without a comprehensive compliance strategy that addresses these issues, organizations will eventually fall behind competitors and increase their risk of data breaches and ransomware.
SecOps helps organizations gain a competitive advantage by increasing agility, while closing security and compliance gaps associated with the latest cloud and container technologies. A comprehensive SecOps program provides a unified view of compliance data collected across data center, cloud, and container resources that is analyzed against flexible predefined policies. Compliance checks can also be embedded directly in DevOps pipelines for instant feedback regarding go and no‐go decisions in the process.
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