Link: https://dzone.com/articles/does-devops-needs-enhanced-security-1
Summary
DevOps has been a popular topic in IT circles over the past few years. A large majority of IT managers and CIO are transforming the software development cycle. DevOps is a software development method that aligns application development with IT operations. Since DevOps is very different from the traditional development process, IT has to adopt a number of new tools and technologies to fulfil in the version of DevOps. Security is of the important aspects to be considered for any enterprises that is transitioning to DevOps. Although the traditional development process is time consuming, they give required time gaos for secutiry team to harden the security at the end of development cycle. DevOps should define security changes that are required at every individual phase in application development instead of at the end of the cycle. DevOps teams need to verify the security policies well before they are enforced. Security teams need APIs that allow security to integrate with other party tools. Enterprises that adopt DevOps need to focus on bringing required agility to security, similar to the application development cycle.
Relevance
The topic DevOps has been discussed in the guest speaker named Nicole. She introduced us what is DevOps and how DevOps can improve the software development process. Bascally, DevOps is a movement that emphasizes the collaboration and communication of both software developers and IT professionals while automating the process of software delivery and infrastructure changes.She give us some examples to explain the key to IT performance. The article above talked about DevOps. It shows that although DevOps can improve and save time for software development cycle, it will be a challenge to ensure security.
Why helpful
The article is very helpful to MIS students to learn more about DevOps because DevOps plays more important role in a software development process nowadays. Nicole explained us the basic idea of DevOps in class. As a MIS student, we should not just know what benefit that DevOps brings to us, but also we should know what new challenge that DevOps brings to us. More and more organizations are adapting DevOps. It is a trend of IT industry. People who pursue as an IT related career should have the knowledge of DevOps.
Very good article, but I'm not sure "tradtional" organizations pay enough attention to security. I do understand the concern about increasing the speed of deployments may create more security risks if not attended to, but that would be true even if deployments are slow.
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