591 words, 2.2 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk

DevSecOps 1 big thing: Ensure strong understanding and involvement with Secure SDLC and DevSecOps or security automation.

The big picture: Make sure your workforce improve the design, implementation, and operation of the software configuration management platform process, ensuring that proper resources and methods are enforced, as well as communications to all levels are maintained.

Why it matters: Confirm that your staff performs highly complex systems design, development, and integration form the start of a systems life cycle to the end.

Be smart: Advocate appropriate cybersecurity software engineering practices such as unit testing, code reviews, full build testing, quality engineering practices and requirements capturing techniques to the teams to improve end to end secure delivery practices.

What we’re hearing: “Be certain that your strategy codes all applications with application security as a top priority, guarding against both persistent and non persistent attacks.“, DevSecOps Engineering Lead

What to watch: Ensure your vision is that your solutions are widely accepted and adopted throughout your organization and a laser focus on success is maintained in this area through influence and advocacy.

On the flip side: Make sure your personnel is responsible for estimating the size of stories, designing solutions developing code and automated tests, creating deployment scripts, managing code in production, and managing any database solutions.

Yes, but: Check that your strategy is leading groups of SMEs through project level of effort estimates, software/hosting cost build up, and implementation plans.

Between the lines: Ensure you built SafeGuard Cyber as an intelligent system to systematically identify and take action against risks in such communication channels, at scale.

State of play: Interface so that your strategy applies overarching, advanced technical knowledge/skills to ensure quality, integration and governance across multiple application environments that include all of the following: legacy/mainframe; virtualized or containerized web services and platforms (internal and external cloud).

Under the hood: Invest in providing information to management regarding the negative impact on the business caused by theft, destruction, alteration or denial of access to information and systems.

Top DevSecOps Must Haves

DevSecOps Executives tell us every quarter about their must haves.

Here are their most urgent ones:

Learn the Top Emerging DevSecOps Risks HERE: store.theartofservice.com/DevSecOps-critical-capabilities/

Top thinkers are using The Art of Service Critical Capabilities Analysis, the guide that’s helping leaders stay ahead of what’s next.

This guide will help you plan your roadmap. The Critical Capabilities and Priorities Guide enables leaders to shortlist hundreds of appropriate results, already prioritized.

Get started: store.theartofservice.com/DevSecOps-critical-capabilities/

The backdrop: Make sure your organization is working with management and (internal) customer SMEs, translate (internal) customer needs and future goals into a roadmap to mature future DevSecOps services.

What they’re saying: “Lead application teams with on boarding to the adopted security tools/technologies; working with vendors to troubleshoot the platform and issues related to integrations.“, DevSecOps

How it works: Coordinate upgrades, patches and deployments with multi-functional project teams, including execution of functional testing, preparation and maintenance of system documentation, and deployment in production environment.

The bottom line: Be certain that your strategy is using a holistic approach, designs, develops, evaluates and modifies end to end systems and systems oriented products through the entire life cycle.

What’s next: Check that your personnel is involved in managing security posture of cloud environment, and working with engineering teams to remediate, and communicating overall risk of environment while identifying areas of improvement.

ICYMI: Make sure the DevSecOps Engineer collaborates with multiple technical teams to deliver state of the art solutions and processes for secure software development and deployment.

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Trusted by: SafeGuard Cyber, Concerto Card Company, FedEx Services, Intone Networks, NetImpact Strategies Inc., Northrop Grumman, Northwestern Mutual, Scope Infotech, Mutual of Omaha, PingWind Inc., Rural Sourcing Inc., Avum, Inc., Sierra7, Tranquil Multi Dynamic Advisory, Indeed, General Dynamics Information Technology, Pantheon, altran, Not Defined, US Immediate Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Rampart Communications Inc, Morgan 6, LLC, Genomic Life, US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Cardinal Health, Booz Allen Hamilton, ARiA, Faith Technologies Inc., Intermedia.net, Inc., TikTok, Changeis, Alteryx, Inc., Caterpillar, Sonos, Inc, Code Dx Inc, Trek10, CVS Health, Eli Lilly, Golden Tech Systems, Smartsheet, Snyk, Cerner Corporation, MAXIMUS, Capgemini, SAIC, BLN24, Sabel Systems, Proit Inc, Amazon Web Services, Inc., Gartner, Cloud Computing Technologies, Aqua Security, VariQ Corporation, CyrusOne, LLC., Capital Group, Global InfoTek, Inc., Global InfoTek Inc, Bigbear.ai, Turing.Com, Ferguson, Github, Tenneco Inc., Best Buy, Geocent, EATON, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., VerSprite, Humana, iSenpai, Golden Tech Systems Inc., Peraton, Credence Management Solutions, LLC, Valiant Solutions, LLC, Tyto Athene, LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, GuidePoint Security, Dawson, Gray Analytics, Dell Technologies, Q2ebanking, DSoft Technology, Engineering & Analysis, Signet Jewelers, Parsec, Reify Health, MetroStar, Karsun Solutions, LLC, Chenega Corporation, World Wide Technology, Inc., ManTech International Corporation, Salesforce, HealthJoy, NAPA Auto Parts, TurningPoint Healthcare Solutions, LLC, UBS, Saviynt, BOEING, Volant Associates, LLC, Deloitte, Allscripts, Principal Financial Group, Prudent Technology, HEB, RightDirection Technology Solutions, William Hill US, CORMAC, BluBracket, Concept Solutions, Akeyless, ITR, Wisconsin Physicians Service Ins. Corp., Home Depot / THD, Virtusa, Slalom Consulting, Ironclad Technnology Services, Mission Lane, Harvard University, The Hanover Insurance Group, Intradiem Inc, GCI, Innovecture, Palo Alto Networks, Scholastic, Data Theorem, Starkey Hearing Technologies, Mattel, Vidoori inc, Dark Wolf Solutions, Chargebee, Garmin, Ensemble Health Partners, The Coca-Cola Company, Adobe, Cognosante, LLC, US Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for DC – Agency Wide, Vidoori, ViaSat, Cummins Inc., IT Data Solutions, Stericycle, Tokio Marine HCC, Universal Orlando, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, DICK’S Sporting Goods, Zipline, Honeywell, Zions Bancorporation, RB Consulting Inc., IBM, Mednax, SBG Technology Solutions, General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc, Edmunds.com, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, Anchore, State Farm, Applied Information Sciences, Guardian Life Insurance Company, Everbridge, Envision, BT, Canonical, Gap Inc., Raft Company Website, JCS Solutions LLC, LUMA Institute LLC, Paradyme Management, NexHealth, FIS Global, Cyprus Credit Union, Alion Science and Technology, Dev Technology Group, Leidos, SRC, Inc., Broad Institute, By Light Professional IT Services LLC, Jacobs, US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology, Inteleos Inc, kraken, Iron Mountain, Lenovo, Delta, Geologics Corporation, TD Bank, Applied Insight, UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group), iWorks Corporation, Sterling Computers Corporation, Phoenix Logistics, LLC, mParticle, The MITRE Corporation, Greenbrier Leasing Company LLC, LinQuest, Acuity INC, Guidehouse, Fannie Mae, L3Harris Technologies, Kaiser Permanente, Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc., Accenture, Kimberly-Clark, FanDuel, Cars.com, Wintrio, Chenega MIOS, Miracle Software Systems, Barclays, Cisco Systems, BOK Financial, Indigo, Facebook, NOKIA, DTCC, App Annie, Oasis Systems LLC, Savvas Learning Company, MRE Consulting, Ltd.(CK), U.S. Bank, Phillips 66, Kraft Heinz Company, MasterCard, Dovel Technologies, LLC, CSEngineering, Oracle, QBE, InVisionApp, Silotech Group, Inc, Audley Consulting Group, DevTech Systems, Inc., Genesis Consulting Partners, LLC, Ensono, BridgePhase, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Apriori, Amtrak, Philips, Wipro Limited, Pratt & Whitney, NJ Transit, deciBel Research, Inc., RevaComm, BAE Systems

552 words, 2.0 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk

DevSecOps 1 big thing: Have management consulting involvement or internal consulting involvement at a technology company.

The big picture: Make sure your group builds a security control matrix based on the input of InfoSec and Product Define technological solutions to meet the controls requirements.

Why it matters: Be sure your team is responsible for delivering a highly available architecture ensuring services can be consumed as self service via API/portal by various Product upstream Infrastructure teams.

Go deeper: Verify that your personnel directs the development of detailed data and produces models of both functional and technical processes and uses automated statistical tools in developing and employing metrics to stabilize, manage, and enhance services.

What we’re hearing: “Communicate and identify issues, which could potentially pose risk to the brand and provide recommendations for controls to mitigate those risks and increase your organizations overall security posture.“, NCDOT – Specialist- Expert

Be smart: Develop strategic vision of your (internal) clients goals for developer productivity, software quality, modern architectures, the cloud, reducing cost, improving availability or platforms or infrastructure, or innovation through technologies like AI and Machine Learning.

Meanwhile: Devise strategic plans to support the migration of various programs, applications, and systems from the CMS enterprise data On premises to the CMS enterprise data Cloud.

The backdrop: Ensure DevSecOps systems you build are robust in the sense they can scale, handle rapid growth, and limit exposure to single points of failure and security vulnerabilities.

How it works: Reimagine continuous integration and deployment practices in developing data processing pipelines to achieve sustainable velocity, compliance to acceptable patterns of use and data stewardship fundamentals.

State of play: Make headway so that your process is involved in various Integration and Service design patterns, REST APIs, Microservices, Containers, Infrastructure as Code, DevSecOps, and Continuous Delivery.

On the flip side: Create and provide documentation and training material to include disaster recovery, potential migration options, and a self assessment cloud migration checklist for customer.

Under the hood: Support the adoption of commercial best practices across the organization in the areas of technology integration, cloud computing, managed services, process improvement, technology innovation and implementation.

Top DevSecOps Must Haves

DevSecOps Executives tell us every quarter about their must haves.

Here are their most urgent ones:

Learn the Top Emerging DevSecOps Risks HERE: store.theartofservice.com/DevSecOps-critical-capabilities/

Top thinkers are using The Art of Service Critical Capabilities Analysis, the guide that’s helping leaders stay ahead of what’s next.

This guide will help you plan your roadmap. The Critical Capabilities and Priorities Guide enables leaders to shortlist hundreds of appropriate results, already prioritized.

Get started: store.theartofservice.com/DevSecOps-critical-capabilities/

What they’re saying: “Interface so that your design has involvement in implementing DevSecOps capabilities especially with continuous integration continuous delivery and environment automation infrastructure as a code automated provisioning deployments and runbook.“, Senior DevSecOps Engineer

The bottom line: Make sure the goal to build the most reliable and cost effective workforce solution, using technology to make it easier to manage and deploy workers at scale.

What’s next: Oversee that your personnel is performing and automating Linux administration activities and collaborating with the development and test teams on continually improving your processes.

ICYMI: Safeguard that your operation works with the core team to identify and schedule all the work required to fulfill program scope, including identification and management of critical path tasks.

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Trusted by: SafeGuard Cyber, Concerto Card Company, FedEx Services, Intone Networks, NetImpact Strategies Inc., Northrop Grumman, Northwestern Mutual, Scope Infotech, Mutual of Omaha, PingWind Inc., Rural Sourcing Inc., Avum, Inc., Sierra7, Tranquil Multi Dynamic Advisory, Indeed, General Dynamics Information Technology, Pantheon, altran, Not Defined, US Immediate Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Rampart Communications Inc, Morgan 6, LLC, Genomic Life, US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Cardinal Health, Booz Allen Hamilton, ARiA, Faith Technologies Inc., Intermedia.net, Inc., TikTok, Changeis, Alteryx, Inc., Caterpillar, Sonos, Inc, Code Dx Inc, Trek10, CVS Health, Eli Lilly, Golden Tech Systems, Smartsheet, Snyk, Cerner Corporation, MAXIMUS, Capgemini, SAIC, BLN24, Sabel Systems, Proit Inc, Amazon Web Services, Inc., Gartner, Cloud Computing Technologies, Aqua Security, VariQ Corporation, CyrusOne, LLC., Capital Group, Global InfoTek, Inc., Global InfoTek Inc, Bigbear.ai, Turing.Com, Ferguson, Github, Tenneco Inc., Best Buy, Geocent, EATON, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., VerSprite, Humana, iSenpai, Golden Tech Systems Inc., Peraton, Credence Management Solutions, LLC, Valiant Solutions, LLC, Tyto Athene, LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, GuidePoint Security, Dawson, Gray Analytics, Dell Technologies, Q2ebanking, DSoft Technology, Engineering & Analysis, Signet Jewelers, Parsec, Reify Health, MetroStar, Karsun Solutions, LLC, Chenega Corporation, World Wide Technology, Inc., ManTech International Corporation, Salesforce, HealthJoy, NAPA Auto Parts, TurningPoint Healthcare Solutions, LLC, UBS, Saviynt, BOEING, Volant Associates, LLC, Deloitte, Allscripts, Principal Financial Group, Prudent Technology, HEB, RightDirection Technology Solutions, William Hill US, CORMAC, BluBracket, Concept Solutions, Akeyless, ITR, Wisconsin Physicians Service Ins. Corp., Home Depot / THD, Virtusa, Slalom Consulting, Ironclad Technnology Services, Mission Lane, Harvard University, The Hanover Insurance Group, Intradiem Inc, GCI, Innovecture, Palo Alto Networks, Scholastic, Data Theorem, Starkey Hearing Technologies, Mattel, Vidoori inc, Dark Wolf Solutions, Chargebee, Garmin, Ensemble Health Partners, The Coca-Cola Company, Adobe, Cognosante, LLC, US Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for DC – Agency Wide, Vidoori, ViaSat, Cummins Inc., IT Data Solutions, Stericycle, Tokio Marine HCC, Universal Orlando, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, DICK’S Sporting Goods, Zipline, Honeywell, Zions Bancorporation, RB Consulting Inc., IBM, Mednax, SBG Technology Solutions, General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc, Edmunds.com, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, Anchore, State Farm, Applied Information Sciences, Guardian Life Insurance Company, Everbridge, Envision, BT, Canonical, Gap Inc., Raft Company Website, JCS Solutions LLC, LUMA Institute LLC, Paradyme Management, NexHealth, FIS Global, Cyprus Credit Union, Alion Science and Technology, Dev Technology Group, Leidos, SRC, Inc., Broad Institute, By Light Professional IT Services LLC, Jacobs, US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology, Inteleos Inc, kraken, Iron Mountain, Lenovo, Delta, Geologics Corporation, TD Bank, Applied Insight, UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group), iWorks Corporation, Sterling Computers Corporation, Phoenix Logistics, LLC, mParticle, The MITRE Corporation, Greenbrier Leasing Company LLC, LinQuest, Acuity INC, Guidehouse, Fannie Mae, L3Harris Technologies, Kaiser Permanente, Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc., Accenture, Kimberly-Clark, FanDuel, Cars.com, Wintrio, Chenega MIOS, Miracle Software Systems, Barclays, Cisco Systems, BOK Financial, Indigo, Facebook, NOKIA, DTCC, App Annie, Oasis Systems LLC, Savvas Learning Company, MRE Consulting, Ltd.(CK), U.S. Bank, Phillips 66, Kraft Heinz Company, MasterCard, Dovel Technologies, LLC, CSEngineering, Oracle, QBE, InVisionApp, Silotech Group, Inc, Audley Consulting Group, DevTech Systems, Inc., Genesis Consulting Partners, LLC, Ensono, BridgePhase, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Apriori, Amtrak, Philips, Wipro Limited, Pratt & Whitney, NJ Transit, deciBel Research, Inc., RevaComm, BAE Systems

572 words, 2.1 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk

DevSecOps 1 big thing: Develop experience leading and directing technical development and or infrastructure Cloud Team.

The big picture: Identify risk associated with potential loss of data and assesses the impact of mitigation strategies and controls on the business process and cost.

Why it matters: Be sure your workforce is working with your Enterprise Information Systems area, help establish and implement application development standards and procedures into your change management and release management processes.

Yes, but: Verify that your group is working of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and able to articulate this framework in an infrastructure and shared services environment.

Be smart: Ensure your organization assists with managing workloads, priorities, escalations to (internal) customer leadership, incident management, and proactive efforts to improve O and M related processes and procedures.

On the flip side: Make headway so that your workforce drives your organization towards Cloud best practices and supporting technologies to enable capabilities as DevSecOps, Big Data/Analytics, AI, Cloud scalability, and Micro Services.

What they’re saying: “Interface so that your process is involved in Cloud architecture best practices: availability; redundancy schemes, performance, Disaster Recovery, database and Interfacing Systems etc.“, Application Development- Manager

Between the lines: Partner with Solution Engineering and Reliability Engineering team leads to create, implement and apply DevSecOps principles, processes and culture that are consumed by delivery teams across Consulting.

The backdrop: Understand the software DevSecOps process and articulate what infrastructure, software and approval processes are required to successfully implement a software solution in multiple target environments.

Meanwhile: Make sure your strategy develops or provides input to planning, budget, security, configuration, and problem management processes related to IT programs and project management, and security strategies and measurement activities.

Go deeper: Confirm that your workforce leads and SME in Modernization methodology and can lead the Design thinking workshop, method tailoring as (internal) client environment and (internal) client industry.

What we’re hearing: “Support the design of an improved approach to Capability Delivery, using modeling as a tool for capturing system knowledge and requirements decomposition, developing a lifecycle model to enable responsive capability deployment, refactor key subsystems to enable external developers and reduce system impact of software changes, while using automated test to increase product quality confidence and reduce regression test efforts.“, Data Engineer Sr

State of play: Provide support to local area networks by installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting LAN hardware and software that includes file servers, routers, switches, wireless and other telecommunications equipment.

The bottom line: Be sure your workforce expands and deepens knowledge in information technology related fields that include cloud services, authentication, PKI, system administration, software development, networking, or security architecture.

What’s next: Ensure your group is conducting investigations and analysis to provide recommendations regarding technology improvements, development best practices, standardization, upgrades, and modifications to the DevOps process.

ICYMI: Liaison so that your organization promotes innovation across the solution and delivery phases by leading the Design thinking workshops leveraging Agile methodologies and DevSecOps, including continuous integration, continuous testing and continuous delivery.

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Trusted by: SafeGuard Cyber, Concerto Card Company, FedEx Services, Intone Networks, NetImpact Strategies Inc., Northrop Grumman, Northwestern Mutual, Scope Infotech, Mutual of Omaha, PingWind Inc., Rural Sourcing Inc., Avum, Inc., Sierra7, Tranquil Multi Dynamic Advisory, Indeed, General Dynamics Information Technology, Pantheon, altran, Not Defined, US Immediate Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Rampart Communications Inc, Morgan 6, LLC, Genomic Life, US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Cardinal Health, Booz Allen Hamilton, ARiA, Faith Technologies Inc., Intermedia.net, Inc., TikTok, Changeis, Alteryx, Inc., Caterpillar, Sonos, Inc, Code Dx Inc, Trek10, CVS Health, Eli Lilly, Golden Tech Systems, Smartsheet, Snyk, Cerner Corporation, MAXIMUS, Capgemini, SAIC, BLN24, Sabel Systems, Proit Inc, Amazon Web Services, Inc., Gartner, Cloud Computing Technologies, Aqua Security, VariQ Corporation, CyrusOne, LLC., Capital Group, Global InfoTek, Inc., Global InfoTek Inc, Bigbear.ai, Turing.Com, Ferguson, Github, Tenneco Inc., Best Buy, Geocent, EATON, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., VerSprite, Humana, iSenpai, Golden Tech Systems Inc., Peraton, Credence Management Solutions, LLC, Valiant Solutions, LLC, Tyto Athene, LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, GuidePoint Security, Dawson, Gray Analytics, Dell Technologies, Q2ebanking, DSoft Technology, Engineering & Analysis, Signet Jewelers, Parsec, Reify Health, MetroStar, Karsun Solutions, LLC, Chenega Corporation, World Wide Technology, Inc., ManTech International Corporation, Salesforce, HealthJoy, NAPA Auto Parts, TurningPoint Healthcare Solutions, LLC, UBS, Saviynt, BOEING, Volant Associates, LLC, Deloitte, Allscripts, Principal Financial Group, Prudent Technology, HEB, RightDirection Technology Solutions, William Hill US, CORMAC, BluBracket, Concept Solutions, Akeyless, ITR, Wisconsin Physicians Service Ins. Corp., Home Depot / THD, Virtusa, Slalom Consulting, Ironclad Technnology Services, Mission Lane, Harvard University, The Hanover Insurance Group, Intradiem Inc, GCI, Innovecture, Palo Alto Networks, Scholastic, Data Theorem, Starkey Hearing Technologies, Mattel, Vidoori inc, Dark Wolf Solutions, Chargebee, Garmin, Ensemble Health Partners, The Coca-Cola Company, Adobe, Cognosante, LLC, US Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for DC – Agency Wide, Vidoori, ViaSat, Cummins Inc., IT Data Solutions, Stericycle, Tokio Marine HCC, Universal Orlando, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, DICK’S Sporting Goods, Zipline, Honeywell, Zions Bancorporation, RB Consulting Inc., IBM, Mednax, SBG Technology Solutions, General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc, Edmunds.com, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, Anchore, State Farm, Applied Information Sciences, Guardian Life Insurance Company, Everbridge, Envision, BT, Canonical, Gap Inc., Raft Company Website, JCS Solutions LLC, LUMA Institute LLC, Paradyme Management, NexHealth, FIS Global, Cyprus Credit Union, Alion Science and Technology, Dev Technology Group, Leidos, SRC, Inc., Broad Institute, By Light Professional IT Services LLC, Jacobs, US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology, Inteleos Inc, kraken, Iron Mountain, Lenovo, Delta, Geologics Corporation, TD Bank, Applied Insight, UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group), iWorks Corporation, Sterling Computers Corporation, Phoenix Logistics, LLC, mParticle, The MITRE Corporation, Greenbrier Leasing Company LLC, LinQuest, Acuity INC, Guidehouse, Fannie Mae, L3Harris Technologies, Kaiser Permanente, Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc., Accenture, Kimberly-Clark, FanDuel, Cars.com, Wintrio, Chenega MIOS, Miracle Software Systems, Barclays, Cisco Systems, BOK Financial, Indigo, Facebook, NOKIA, DTCC, App Annie, Oasis Systems LLC, Savvas Learning Company, MRE Consulting, Ltd.(CK), U.S. Bank, Phillips 66, Kraft Heinz Company, MasterCard, Dovel Technologies, LLC, CSEngineering, Oracle, QBE, InVisionApp, Silotech Group, Inc, Audley Consulting Group, DevTech Systems, Inc., Genesis Consulting Partners, LLC, Ensono, BridgePhase, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Apriori, Amtrak, Philips, Wipro Limited, Pratt & Whitney, NJ Transit, deciBel Research, Inc., RevaComm, BAE Systems

484 words, 1.8 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk

DevSecOps 1 big thing: Conduct operational and system data flow analysis and documentation for vulnerability assessments.

The big picture: Warrant that your workforce includes analysis of security policy and regulations, assessment of ICAM requirements and the translation into proper ICAM system requirements specifications and implementation.

Why it matters: Be certain that your company address all technical issues; facilitate the resolution and necessary follow up with Development and other cross functional departments.

Be smart: Make sure your design is involved in a statistical programming language like R or Python; applied machine learning techniques including dimensionality reduction strategies, supervised/unsupervised classification and natural language processing frameworks.

What we’re hearing: “Collaborate closely on new projects and programs with Applications Division groups, any product delivery manager, and DevSecOps delivery teams charged with executing the roadmap.“, Associate Director, Digital Solutions

On the flip side: Liaison so that your company establishes and maintains DevSecOps Automation usage guidelines, standards and best practices, to ensure tool use is efficient, effective and adheres to organizational compliance and security practices.

The backdrop: Make headway so that your company participates in and/or leads forensic investigations and analysis, including collaboration with Legal and Risk Management teams.

State of play: Guarantee your staff is defining and reviewing Privacy and Security/Information Assurance requirements (and dependencies) and defining and reviewing the Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery Testing plans.

Go deeper: Ensure DevOps systems you build are robust in the sense they can scale, handle rapid growth, and limit exposure to single points of failure and security vulnerabilities.

Meanwhile: Ensure your System Administrators are asked to solve challenging problems for unique (internal) customers and have a direct impact on the direction of software products and solutions used by those (internal) customers.

What to watch: Check that your design is involved in relational/structured database development/design or Be confident that your team is involved in non relational/unstructured, graph or big data database development/design.

The bottom line: Manage the delivery and plan effectively quality assurance, appraisal and approval of security deliverables to include revising and drafting test plans, security specification reviews and standards and technical documentation.

What’s next: Identify, track, prioritize, and effectively communicate Information Security risks to the business and work with leadership to determine how to manage such risks.

ICYMI: Confirm that your organization is involved in modern security tooling next gen firewalls, SIEMs, endpoint defense, privileged access management, cloud native tools, etc.

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Trusted by: SafeGuard Cyber, Concerto Card Company, FedEx Services, Intone Networks, NetImpact Strategies Inc., Northrop Grumman, Northwestern Mutual, Scope Infotech, Mutual of Omaha, PingWind Inc., Rural Sourcing Inc., Avum, Inc., Sierra7, Tranquil Multi Dynamic Advisory, Indeed, General Dynamics Information Technology, Pantheon, altran, Not Defined, US Immediate Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Rampart Communications Inc, Morgan 6, LLC, Genomic Life, US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Cardinal Health, Booz Allen Hamilton, ARiA, Faith Technologies Inc., Intermedia.net, Inc., TikTok, Changeis, Alteryx, Inc., Caterpillar, Sonos, Inc, Code Dx Inc, Trek10, CVS Health, Eli Lilly, Golden Tech Systems, Smartsheet, Snyk, Cerner Corporation, MAXIMUS, Capgemini, SAIC, BLN24, Sabel Systems, Proit Inc, Amazon Web Services, Inc., Gartner, Cloud Computing Technologies, Aqua Security, VariQ Corporation, CyrusOne, LLC., Capital Group, Global InfoTek, Inc., Global InfoTek Inc, Bigbear.ai, Turing.Com, Ferguson, Github, Tenneco Inc., Best Buy, Geocent, EATON, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., VerSprite, Humana, iSenpai, Golden Tech Systems Inc., Peraton, Credence Management Solutions, LLC, Valiant Solutions, LLC, Tyto Athene, LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, GuidePoint Security, Dawson, Gray Analytics, Dell Technologies, Q2ebanking, DSoft Technology, Engineering & Analysis, Signet Jewelers, Parsec, Reify Health, MetroStar, Karsun Solutions, LLC, Chenega Corporation, World Wide Technology, Inc., ManTech International Corporation, Salesforce, HealthJoy, NAPA Auto Parts, TurningPoint Healthcare Solutions, LLC, UBS, Saviynt, BOEING, Volant Associates, LLC, Deloitte, Allscripts, Principal Financial Group, Prudent Technology, HEB, RightDirection Technology Solutions, William Hill US, CORMAC, BluBracket, Concept Solutions, Akeyless, ITR, Wisconsin Physicians Service Ins. Corp., Home Depot / THD, Virtusa, Slalom Consulting, Ironclad Technnology Services, Mission Lane, Harvard University, The Hanover Insurance Group, Intradiem Inc, GCI, Innovecture, Palo Alto Networks, Scholastic, Data Theorem, Starkey Hearing Technologies, Mattel, Vidoori inc, Dark Wolf Solutions, Chargebee, Garmin, Ensemble Health Partners, The Coca-Cola Company, Adobe, Cognosante, LLC, US Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for DC – Agency Wide, Vidoori, ViaSat, Cummins Inc., IT Data Solutions, Stericycle, Tokio Marine HCC, Universal Orlando, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, DICK’S Sporting Goods, Zipline, Honeywell, Zions Bancorporation, RB Consulting Inc., IBM, Mednax, SBG Technology Solutions, General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc, Edmunds.com, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, Anchore, State Farm, Applied Information Sciences, Guardian Life Insurance Company, Everbridge, Envision, BT, Canonical, Gap Inc., Raft Company Website, JCS Solutions LLC, LUMA Institute LLC, Paradyme Management, NexHealth, FIS Global, Cyprus Credit Union, Alion Science and Technology, Dev Technology Group, Leidos, SRC, Inc., Broad Institute, By Light Professional IT Services LLC, Jacobs, US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology, Inteleos Inc, kraken, Iron Mountain, Lenovo, Delta, Geologics Corporation, TD Bank, Applied Insight, UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group), iWorks Corporation, Sterling Computers Corporation, Phoenix Logistics, LLC, mParticle, The MITRE Corporation, Greenbrier Leasing Company LLC, LinQuest, Acuity INC, Guidehouse, Fannie Mae, L3Harris Technologies, Kaiser Permanente, Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc., Accenture, Kimberly-Clark, FanDuel, Cars.com, Wintrio, Chenega MIOS, Miracle Software Systems, Barclays, Cisco Systems, BOK Financial, Indigo, Facebook, NOKIA, DTCC, App Annie, Oasis Systems LLC, Savvas Learning Company, MRE Consulting, Ltd.(CK), U.S. Bank, Phillips 66, Kraft Heinz Company, MasterCard, Dovel Technologies, LLC, CSEngineering, Oracle, QBE, InVisionApp, Silotech Group, Inc, Audley Consulting Group, DevTech Systems, Inc., Genesis Consulting Partners, LLC, Ensono, BridgePhase, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Apriori, Amtrak, Philips, Wipro Limited, Pratt & Whitney, NJ Transit, deciBel Research, Inc., RevaComm, BAE Systems

563 words, 2.1 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk

DevSecOps 1 big thing: Establish and maintain project communication and set project quality and performance standards.

The big picture: Work with the Design, Engineering, Product, Marketing, and IT teams to architect, implement, and maintain automated software installs on multiple environments, production deployments, and infrastructure needs to support a secure CI/CD strategy.

Why it matters: Partner with Information Security to drive a DevSecOps mindset across IDS and to ensure that the DevOps tools are secure and used in a secure manner.

Under the hood: Serve as a primary point of contact for Security Incidents to minimize the impact and then conduct a technical and forensic investigation into how the breach happened.

Top DevSecOps Must Haves

DevSecOps Executives tell us every quarter about their must haves.

Here are their most urgent ones:

Learn the Top Emerging DevSecOps Risks HERE: store.theartofservice.com/DevSecOps-critical-capabilities/

Top thinkers are using The Art of Service Critical Capabilities Analysis, the guide that’s helping leaders stay ahead of what’s next.

This guide will help you plan your roadmap. The Critical Capabilities and Priorities Guide enables leaders to shortlist hundreds of appropriate results, already prioritized.

Get started: store.theartofservice.com/DevSecOps-critical-capabilities/

What we’re hearing: “AppSec/DevSecOps capabilities include concepts such as Secure-by-Design, DevSecOps, Secure Software Development Lifecycle (S-SDLC), Threat Modeling, Requirements Gathering, Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), Penetration Testing, and Code Remediation.“, Cloud Administrator Azure VBECS

Go deeper: Plan, evaluate, recommend, design and implement security solutions for moderately complex projects, including preparation of cost justifications, use cases, alternative solutions, and technical recommendations.

Be smart: Take Data Science models and scale them out to production by creating DevOps pipelines that automate the data collection, prep, transform, analyze, experiment, train, validate, serve, monitor, etc.

How it works: Manage the overall efforts for these the following risk identification, reduction, and avoidance programs: Static Application Security Test (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Test (DAST), Interactive Application Security Test (IAST), Mobile Apps Security, Integration of Automated Security Testing Capabilities into DevOps CICD pipelines (DevSecOps), Technical Secure Developers Training, and App Security Test Tools Support and Research.

What to watch: Certify your organization is responsible for the designing of interface standards, quality assurance standards, performance standards, and cost-benefit analysis of modern state-of-the art information systems; analyzes available technologies and makes recommendations of technologies to use and how best to use them.

State of play: Use Extreme Programming (including working as a pair programmer) and DevSecOps best practices to iteratively build features of the application for testing and feedback.

Between the lines: Use DevSecOps to accelerate enterprise cloud adoption while enabling rapid and stable delivery of capabilities using continuous integration and continuous deployment principles, methodologies, and technologies.

Meanwhile: Guarantee your strategy has responsibility for hiring, training, motivating, and retaining top employees resulting in the development and maintenance of a high performance team.

The bottom line: Make sure your design is working with scrum teams to build and deliver software releases and infrastructure improvements through improved CI/CD processes.

What’s next: Make sure your design designs and develops digital architecture (integrated processes, applications, data and technologies) solutions for new products/services, applications and service offerings to support current software/platforms and transformation.

ICYMI: Work with a team of engineers in developing open source tools and processes for the entire SDLC: threat modeling, cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps pipelines, vuln management, pen testing.

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