Tag: security

Trust & the trusted image
What is Your Trust Model? Information security conversations often start with the question “What is your threat model?” This blog asks: “What is your trust model?”. Trust is a complex subject and ...

Protect and Defend: Repositories
When you're creating work that gets deployed into production, there is typically a repository involved. It could be a code base, a deployment hub, a definitive software library, a library of VM ...

Logging Wins for Devops and Security
Its always great when companies can invest in tools that serve multiple groups and purposes. Ensuring proper setup and use of logs is one toolset that can serve both DevOps and Security ...

Organizational Dysfunction: The original vulnerability
During your teenage years, you may have figured out a way to get a ‘yes’ from your parents by playing off of the responsibility and knowledge gap between them…walking up to your ...

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 ...

DevOps: An Opportunity to Build a Better Resiliency
Security professionals like to check code for security-related defects before the code is delivered. When they start hearing about multiple builds a day, or even a few builds a week, and a ...

DevOps and Security Are Compatible
When I speak with information security organizations faced with the prospect of moving to DevOps, one of the most common fears I hear is that this transition will degrade security of infrastructure ...

Security Policies For DevOps 101
A while back I was talking with some friends about how to ensure security inside a devops environment. The simple first thought was that no where does DevOps say to do away ...

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 ...

The Unexpected Benefits of DevOps
There are many well and widely known benefits of DevOps, including rapid software delivery, a higher degree of enterprise agility, increased system resilience, and being able to swiftly identify and resolve problems ...

DevOps – A wake up call to security vendors
DevOps is changing the way IT works. Through a collaboration of development and IT teams, organizations can achieve tremendous scale at increased speed to deploy and maintain critical applications and infrastructure. The ...

The Fourth Seat at the IT Service Velocity Table
Agile. Devops. SDN. Development. Operations. Network. Notice anything missing? How about security? On the one hand, that could be because we've finally managed to realize that security is an integral part of ...

