A recent DevSecOps survey by Gitlab, a company well known for its DevOps software innovations, suggested that Business Analytics and AI/ML are going to be an important part of the SDLC. The motivation being, a continuous feedback system that would assist with the workflows, ensure rapid security response, and enable the SDLC for better monitoring. Clinching on to this feat would surely reap productivity and security benefits for your digital transformation journey. However, are your cloud cyber security resources really prepared to engage with the security challenges of modernized DevSecOps?
DevSecOps and the Consequential Arrival of Cloud Security Posture Management
As performance-boosting as it might be, DevSecOps has certainly complicated the already challenging slalom of digital transformation. Enterprises cannot fathom to neglect the continuous monitoring, enhanced delivery rate, automated recovery capabilities, and many more of its benefits. However, with SaaS, distributed environments, hybrid work cultures etc. DevSecOps needs some extra gears to tackle the security hurdles in the race. Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) can offer the necessary infrastructure security that can help DevSecOps teams to maintain deeper and uniform visibility across the SDLC.
To understand its potential we first need to have a deeper look at the security challenges that modernized DevSecOps will have to face.
Security Risks Against Secure DevOps
Visibility in Clouds
Cloud infrastructure is the key ingredient for modern day digital transformation strategies. Organizations are smartly curating multi-cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures to ensure maximum delivery rate and automation benefits. However, the more complicated cloud infrastructure is required for a business, the less visibility it offers for monitoring and security. Realizing the continuous security promises of DevSecOps can be challenging in such environments where compliance and data security threats can easily fly under the radar.
Convoluted Toolkit
What’s worse than lack of security? Over-complicated, sub-par security. Even if DevSecOps teams find the right tools to monitor and protect the cloud operations, maintaining these tools for the complex infrastructures might exhaust more resources than ones already being invested. Such Tool sprawl also leads to undesirable amount of notifications and reports that are near impossible to manage. For DevSecOps to work in harmony with AI/ML and Analytics, it is essential that these tools are curated as per security and monitoring priorities.
Attack Response
With complex infrastructures and even more complex tooling, DevSecOps makes it hard for automation resources to ensure efficient response to cyber security attacks. Having low visibility in the cloud infrastructure, the vulnerabilities of SDLC and CI/CD pipelines also cannot be fixed up until very late in the DevSecOps pipeline causing performance delays
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Reference - https://www.cybersecurityengineering.services/
