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Security and Speed: Why DevOps and Security Need to Play Nicely
It isn’t news that DevOps and IT security teams often struggle to align their departments and maintain a coherent balance between keeping a business secure and developing new applications to maintain customer interest. While security processes are a necessity, they can be deemed by DevOps teams to be manual and cumbersome, blocking the agility that […]
Jan 4, 2019 · 3 minAll articles by Reuven Harrison
Showing 1–6Automation domination (for security automation it’s a path)
Let’s face it, by nature security professionals are not the trusting type – in the least bit whatsoever – to put it bluntly. The concept of automating security makes them jumpy, testy and downright irritable in some cases. Why? Well, as we know, security teams are charged with maintaining control over processes. Introducing automation requires […]
You have to crawl before you walk…
In previous posts I have explained what Security Policy Orchestration is, why DevOps folks should care, and how it can help facilitate the cultural change necessary for organizations to reap the long-term benefits of the cloud and virtualization. In this post, I’ll provide a few examples of how Security Policy Orchestration can create some “quick […]
Dev, Ops and Security Collaboration: Bring the body and the mind will follow
Complexity has a way of muddying even the clearest of waters, and this has certainly been the case with IT Operations. While Dev, Ops and Security teams share a common purpose, the silos between them are so deeply entrenched, it’s easy to see how they have forgotten that they are working towards the same end. […]
What is Security Policy Orchestration and Why Should DevOps Teams Care?
After attending the DevOps day I wrote about in my last post, I wanted to take a minute to explain exactly what Security Policy Orchestration actually is so we can begin to understand how the two concepts overlap. Simply put, Security Policy Orchestration is intelligent network change automation. It goes beyond simple task automation by […]
Why Baking Security Into the DevOps Framework is Vital to Its Success
I attended my first official DevOps conference in Israel in September 2013. But I was initially introduced to DevOps by my customers – firewall and network managers who, through their efforts to automate security policy management, found themselves dealing with a new and like-minded set of IT stakeholders – DevOps teams. They said DevOps was […]