Yasar Hasan

Goals and objectives

We’ve spent last six years studying the secure coding practices of DevOps and the continuous delivery organizations by surveying over 20,000 software professionals. We’ve analyzed their staffing practices, educational priorities, automation choices, security tools usage and various software development processes that improve their cybersecurity preparedness. Our study has also uncovered details of where automation fails, awareness falls short, and breaches happen. We know, as a collective team, how to produce the highest quality of software by following a DevOps methodology. This methodology helps us enforce security checks at each phase in a SDLC. We learned many lessons on how automation help improve security. For example, how happy developer’s vs grumpy developers effect better software security. More specifically, recent surveys point out that mature DevOps practices are 3.6x more likely to consider security as a top concern and 2x more likely to have automated governance and compliance. In addition, mature DevOps practices are constantly testing, deploying, and validating that the software meets every requirement and allows for fast recovery in the event of a problem.