Tag: app security

Better Apps and Better Security When You Shift Left
Tens of thousands of people and hundreds of cybersecurity vendors descended on San Francisco at the end of April. While the RSA Conference was the primary draw, there are a number of ...

What It Really Takes to Build a Reliable App
What makes an app reliable? If you ask most IT professionals that question, their minds immediately go to uptime. That’s not surprising; after all, it’s fashionable for software and infrastructure vendors these ...

Three Ways Developers Can Worry Less About Security
Over the past 10 years, developers have risen in organizational importance. They’ve acquired more tools, power, responsibility and autonomy. As part of that evolution, many developers today want to touch all of ...

Portable Security Policies: A DevSecOps Primer
Protecting critical data and applications is a challenge under any circumstances, but it’s especially daunting when resources reside in the cloud. Most organizations today operate a significant portion of their workloads in ...

The DevOps Security Stack
The whole idea behind DevOps is automation. DevOps automates the development process by eliminating or minimizing human error. If an error occurs, the applications fail quickly so the errors can be resolved ...

Continuous Reliability: How QA and SREs Can Improve Their CI/CD Workflow
A key challenge in maintaining and accelerating the speed of software delivery is balancing the rate of change with the reliability of your software. With the move toward an increasingly automated workflow, ...

From ‘Water-Scrum-Fall’ to DevSecOps
As organizations abandon the waterfall method of software development for Agile, many are stuck in what Hasan Yasar terms Water-Scrum-Fall. That is, the organization has not effectively embraced Agile and DevOps principles and remains ...

It Is Not All Choice and Speed in DevOps
One of the stumbling blocks starting to show in the agile/DevOps world is that speed of delivery and developer choice are asserting themselves as the primary worthy goals. I’m a developer. I ...

Minimum Viable App Doesn’t Mean Minimum Security
It’s estimated that the total market for mobile apps will hit $143 billion this year. A big portion of that budget will be enterprise mobile app development. By next year 25 percent ...