The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically altered working experiences and what we consider to be normal. Almost every industry has been affected and businesses were forced to scramble to find ways of operating at such a difficult time. Things have begun to improve, and we may be through the worst of the pandemic, but it has had a lingering effect.

Remote working is here to stay, so it's vital that businesses understand how to get the best out of their staff. For some roles, working remotely is easier than others - DevOps employees, for example, can face challenges if they're not fully supported within the organisation. In a distributed workforce, there's a higher risk of security issues and application problems, so it's crucial that organisations support them to keep the organisation running smoothly. Here are 6 ways to do just that.

In this blog, we will guide you through the benefits and the right approach to implement the shift-left security approach in your application development process and see how this simple strategy can transform the entire security posture of your organization.

Today's organisations are operating in a digital landscape filled with complexities and vulnerabilities. Increasingly, the applications and technologies businesses use to facilitate crucial business operations and connect people are at the mercy of cybercriminals - who are eager to attack from the shadows exploiting and stealing sensitive information held within these everyday applications. As such, security and DevOps teams need a collaborative approach to address and triage application vulnerabilities that continually present themselves - despite each team having different overall objectives.

A cloud native approach to infrastructure and application development enables simplification and speed. Many of the traditional tasks involved in managing and deploying server architecture are removed, and high levels of automation deployed, making use of software-driven infrastructure models. Applications can be deployed at scale, be resilient and secure, while also allowing continuous integration technologies to accelerate development and deployment. Cloud approaches are set to dominate the future, most authorities agree: according to Deloitte, for example, global cloud spending will grow seven times faster than overall IT spending until at least 2025.

The NIST framework tells us that it is crucial to treat security as both an action that is not a singular fix but a chorus of proactive and reactive measures. It also teaches us that it is a continuous journey. In this article, we shall apply these concepts of measures and continuous journeys to some real-world examples. Here we choose Office 365 as, for many organizations, it exposes the dominant risk surface.