Software security vulnerabilities are among the most commonly used weaknesses that hackers exploit to compromise business applications and steal data. Unfortunately, vulnerabilities at this level are also among the most difficult to fix because they require going back through development and making changes at the code level. The longer it takes organizations to identify software security vulnerabilities, the more money and time they end up spending to repair them, all while facing a greater risk of getting hacked.
As organizations increasingly embrace DevOps, they face new challenges for ensuring that all steps in their development process follow correct security procedures and that the software they produce is secure.
While DevOps offers the benefit of faster production timelines and continuous delivery, one challenge is that developers produce code faster and more often than security teams can keep up with. In a DevOps environment, security teams often have trouble retrofitting traditional security activities such as security requirements, threat modelling, static analysis and penetration testing.
Conversely, development teams are too time-constrained to waste time on inefficient security processes, such as triaging unmanageable volumes of results from application security testing tools.
DevSecOps (or Secure DevOps) aims to more efficiently bridge security with development. DevSecOps allows organizations to move fast and ensure a high level of security across their applications and operations. It is a set of practices that attempts to address these issues through two core principles: automation and education.
Security Compass can help you enable Secure DevOps by creating greater efficiency in every step of the secure SDLC. By helping you implement procedures, automated tools and training to push security activities across the SDLC, organizations can retain the benefits of DevOps while ensuring no compromises on application security.
Depending on an organization’s existing practices and sophistication of their development lifecycle, we can support the definition, roll-out, execution and reporting across the entire security program or across individual parts. With Security Compass, organizations can easily integrate security practices into the DevOps cycle, allowing them to build secure software and minimize costly and time consuming errors that can occur in the production phases.
Security Compass serves some of the world's largest businesses including seven of the 15 largest financial institutions and four of the 10 largest technology companies in North America. The privately held company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with global offices in the United States and India.
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