Digital transformation is different in every organisation, but a key contingent involves the business implementing new strategies around how they deploy technology and the security required to keep business assets safe
They recognise the need to increase adoption of Cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), to keep up with demand for digital as physical legacy systems become outdated and unable support growth. By embracing the improved agility, scalability and flexibility modern technology has to offer through automation of critical processes, it makes businesses more efficient as a whole.
APIs are growing in importance because they're a key part of digital transformation and cloud computing. They're also a rapidly growing attack surface because they're not widely understood by Developers and Application Security teams.
As programmes pick up pace and the business strives to get new services and software live, it requires significant investment in IT, Security, DevOps and Agile programmes to improve system functionality processes and resource.
Not only that, the pace of software releases have increased dramatically. Back in the day, there may have been a major software release every year or so. Now, depending on the size and type of organisation there can be hundreds of changes to an app daily, with some businesses targeting their DevOps teams with hourly, rather than monthly cycles.
The knock-on effect to already stretched Security teams means they have to make choices around which vulnerabilities based on their ability to test and an estimation of the likelihood a breach could occur when a version of software is released.
It relies on them doing eleventh hour testing and making go-no go decisions at the very end of a development cycle. A no-go at this stage wastes significant development man-hours, a missed release deadline, or someone adding it to the risky practice many businesses now term “security debt”. Simply put, this is when companies haven’t invested enough money or resource into security up front and compares the pressure of monetary debt with the long-term burden developers and IT teams face when security shortcuts are taken.
This begs the question “is a business truly transforming if benefits are potentially eroded by the possibility of catastrophic vulnerabilities?”
Effective digital transformation requires an overhaul of how businesses think about security as a whole and streamlining the business to take advantage of the latest technological advantages, not least those that have been designed to harmonise the relationship between DevOps and Cyber Security teams to be both more efficient and effective.
Development technologies are moving at a fast pace. The threat landscape is constantly changing. Security professionals are under immense pressure not only to learn about new development techniques such as microservices, but their company may also be operating in multiple cloud environments, with each cloud having its own security requirements.
It’s questionable whether it’s even reasonable to expect them to keep pace in such a dynamic environment without streamlining processes and equipping both DevOps and Security with adequate tools for the job.
As company executives pile the pressure on teams to speed up development, get new revenue generating products to market quicker, they’re are often at odds with Security teams whose primary responsibility is to protect the company and its assets.
Slowly development teams are gaining more of a voice in security issues and are being given the tools to test during the development cycle. This is not about trying to make developers Security professionals but it is about enabling them to be part of the security solution, masters of their own workload to comprehensively test, assess and improve their cybersecurity posture regardless of the industry they’re in.
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Now that’s transformation.
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