DevOps and its underlying concepts provide undisputed benefits to any forward-thinking organization, and the DevOps toolchain provides mechanisms to realize these benefits.
The way people work has changed. Driven by the increasing use of cloud services and mobile devices, people now expect to be able to work at any time, from any place, and on any device. These changes are dramatically altering the network and security infrastructure in many organizations.
Everything is moving to the cloud. Certainly your apps are, with well over a thousand cloud apps in the average enterprise today. Your infrastructure is moving to the cloud too, with IaaS services such as
AWS and Azure growing at a rapid pace. Most importantly, your critical data is moving to the cloud.
All data is security relevant and defending against threats involves every department in a company. With cyberthreats and bad actors constantly evolving, it is imperative for everyone in an organization to come together to identify and protect critical data.
Companies have responded to cyber attacks with various tools, such as anti-virus, malware, and other endpoint protection, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and others. But despite these additions, data breaches have been increasing steadily over the past five years.
Your organization's security posture is only as strong as your least secure - or least scrupulous - employee. All it takes is an IT professional forgetting to apply a patch, a manager sending sensitive data to the wrong person, or an angry systems administrator selling your intellectual property to set your business back millions of dollars.
Recent cyberattacks have made it clear that organizations of all sizes need to focus on a holistic and cohesive security strategy. Security operations centers (SOCs) have become a focal point in this effort, consolidating the right people, processes and technology to mitigate and remediate attacks.