Microservices are a hot topic in IT circles these days. The idea of a modular approach to system building – where you have numerous, smaller software services that talk to each other instead of monolithic components – has many benefits ...
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August 06, 2018
Eric Sheridan
WhiteHat Security
The previous chapter in this WhiteHat Security series discussed dependencies as the second step of the Twelve-Factor App. This next chapter examines the security component of step three of the Twelve-Factor methodology — storing configurations within the environment.
August 02, 2018
Anand Akela
Tricentis
Results from new Forrester Consulting research reveal the 20 most important Agile and DevOps quality metrics that separate DevOps/Agile experts from their less advanced peers ...
July 31, 2018
Pete Cheslock
Threat Stack
Even organizations that understand the importance of cybersecurity in theory often stumble when it comes to marrying security initiatives with their development and operations processes. Most businesses agree that everyone should be responsible for security, but this principle is not being upheld on a day-to-day basis in many organizations. That’s bad news for everyone. Here are some best practices for implementing SecOps ...
July 30, 2018
Pete Cheslock
Threat Stack
While the technologies, processes, and cultural shifts of DevOps have improved the ability of software teams to deliver reliable work rapidly and effectively, security has not been a focal point in the transformation of cloud IT infrastructure. SecOps is a methodology that seeks to address this by operationalizing and hardening security throughout the software lifecycle ...
July 24, 2018
Ronit Eliav
Panaya
What top considerations must companies make to ensure – or at least help improve – Agile at scale? The following are key techniques and practices to help accelerate Agile delivery rollouts and scale Agile and DevOps in the Enterprise ...
July 23, 2018
Ronit Eliav
Panaya
Digital transformation is an important part of most corporate agendas for 2018. Successful digital transformation, encompassing your current business, partners and both current and prospective customers, isn't always easy. However, adopting an enterprise-wide Agile methodology can help ease the burden and deliver discernible ROI much faster ...
July 17, 2018
Mark Levy
Micro Focus
In my first blog in this series, I highlighted some of the main challenges teams face with trying to scale mainframe DevOps. To get past these hurdles, the key is to develop an incremental approach that enables teams to capture value along each step of the journey ...
July 16, 2018
Mark Levy
Micro Focus
The key to mainframe DevOps success is in quickly identifying and removing major bottlenecks in the application delivery lifecycle. Major challenges include collaboration between mainframe and distributed teams, lack of visibility into the impact of software changes, and limited resource flexibility with scaling out necessary testing initiatives. Now let's take a closer look at some of these key challenges and how IT departments can address them ...
July 11, 2018
Hillel Solow
Check Point
How much are organizations investing in the shift to cloud native, how much is it getting them? ...
July 10, 2018
Hillel Solow
Check Point
In the shift to cloud native, many organizations have adopted a configuration-as-code approach. This helps drive up application deployment velocity by letting developers and DevOps teams reconfigure their deployments as their needs arise. Other organizations, particularly the more regulated ones, still have security people owning these tools, but that creates increased pressure on the security organization to keep up. How much are organizations investing in this process, and how much is it getting them? ...
June 25, 2018
Eric Sheridan
WhiteHat Security
The previous chapter in this WhiteHat Security series discussed Codebase as the first step of the Twelve-Factor App and defined a security best practice approach for ensuring a secure source control system. Considering the importance of applying security in a modern DevOps world, this next chapter examines the security component of step two of the Twelve-Factor methodology. Here follows some actionable advice from the WhiteHat Security Addendum Checklist, which developers and ops engineers can follow during the SaaS build and operations stages ...
June 21, 2018
Dror Davidoff
Aqua Security
DevSecOps is quickly gaining support and traction, within and beyond information security teams. In fact, 70% of respondents believe their culture can embrace the change needed to fuse Security and DevOps, according to a new survey of 80 security professionals by Aqua Security ...
June 14, 2018
Dan Murphy
Embotics
Despite the vast majority of cloud management decision-makers believing that DevOps and microservice enablement are important, very few believe that their organizations are capable of delivering them today — a gap that is costing the average enterprise $34 million per year, according to new report from the Ponemon Institute ...
June 12, 2018
Amir Rozenberg
Perfecto
Dev teams are doing their best to give the customers what they want, but oftentimes find themselves in between a rock and a hard place. Teams are struggling to get up to speed with new tools that are meant to make their lives easier and more realistic to hit deadlines. With spring cleaning season upon us, take time this season to tune up agile processes and continue the work of advancing the shift towards DevOps ...
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