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The benefits of integrating security into DevOps are plentiful – from reduced risk and lower costs to faster delivery and more effective compliance .
between security and development – 68 % are either not particularly confident or not confident at all .
• 84 % experience challenges in their current approaches to security and 60 % admit that they don ’ t fully understand how security fits into DevSecOps . In addition , 62 % said they were not particularly confident or not confident at all in the accuracy of their security and compliance data .
• Encouragingly , 48 % were familiar and interested in Infrastructure and Policy-As-Code
• 58 % of respondents agreed that culture is the biggest barrier to DevSecOps progress , yet only 24 % are prioritizing culture as an area to optimize in the next 12 – 18 months .
• In addition , at a people level , respondents said that they felt the following should happen to support a shift to a more strategic DevOps approach compared to a tactical approach involving only Dev / IT Ops :
• Upskilling of developers and engineers to move into SRE roles ( 72 %)
• Creation and hiring of new roles such as certified SRE ( Site Reliability Engineer ) ( 60 %)
• More investment in continuous learning for developers and engineers ( 48 %)
The organizations succeeding in the implementation of DevOps and DevSecOps policies and practices recognize the importance of security training and upskilling . This helps them reach a higher level of continued long-term collaboration between security and development teams .
According to the respondents , the top business factors driving the adoption and evolution of DevOps inside their organizations include a focus on agility , reducing the business risk of quality , security , and downtime or performance issues , and the need to implement DevOps to support a cloud-mandate or their move
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