November 9, 2019 bestdevops DevSecOps Leave a comment

DevSecOps: Aligning conflicting priorities to combine forces

Source:-cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com DevOps and security teams have historically been known to work in silos until the end of the development process, resulting in friction between both teams. This is because security is often an afterthought in a race to roll out products and services to market, not leaving enough time to address the potential vulnerabilities that may arise. The benefits of DevOps are undeniable – increased speed, rapid experimentation and continuous change are now guiding operating tenets to succeed in this competitive market.

September 26, 2019 bestdevops AWS Leave a comment

How to set up and register a thing to use in AWS IoT

Source:-techrepublic.comIoT greatly complicates data management for almost all business enterprises—for many, the job is just too large and moving too quickly to handle alone. The cloud can help. For many businesses, data management now includes the collection, processing, storing, and analyzing of massive streams of data from a multitude of sources located in an interconnected network known as the Internet of Things (IoT). For all but a few large enterprises, managing data under those conditions requires specialized third-party provided cloud services—the job

September 25, 2019 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Bridging the Gap Between Security & DevOps

Source:-darkreading.com An inside look into the engineering mindset of DevOps from the vantage of a career security professional. Last month, I had the eye-opening experience of attending my first pure-play DevOps conference, DevOps World, put on by CloudBees. Inconveniently one week after Black Hat, the conference could not have been more dissimilar. Suffice it to say it was a significant learning experience for a career security person. I learned about security through the eyes of DevOps engineers, many of whom spoke candidly

March 31, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process Leave a comment

IT ops pros adopt iterative approach to security in DevOps

Source:- searchitoperations.techtarget.com Baby steps that add security in DevOps environments are better than none at all, according to experienced IT ops practitioners. Most organizations have dedicated IT security departments or personnel, but lack of a mature DevSecOps collaboration means IT ops ends up on the front lines to identify vulnerabilities and anomalies in production applications. Like it or not, security in DevOps environments is often left up to them. Attacks are often unmasked because they show up as a problem