Cloud security and devops have work to do
If there is anything that keeps cloud development leaders up at night, it’s the fact that the risk of an impending security breach is scarily high. If I go around the room at any enterprise development meeting, devops engineers, cloud developers, and cloud architects all see a company-debilitating breach as inevitable.
Enterprise Strategy Group recently completed a cloud threat detection and response research project with interesting results. First, what we already understand: 80% of organizations have adopted a devops model, and 75% push new software builds to production at least once a week. The top challenges include not having enough visibility and control within the development process, software released without security checks, and inconsistent security processes across development teams. I would add supply chain concerns as well.