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DEVOPSdigest asked experts from across the IT industry — from analysts and consultants to users and the top vendors — for their opinions on the top tools to support DevSecOps. Part 5, the last installment, offers some final thoughts about "tools" that are not necessarily technology.
Start with The Top Tools to Support DevSecOps - Part 1
Start with The Top Tools to Support DevSecOps - Part 2
Start with The Top Tools to Support DevSecOps - Part 3
Start with The Top Tools to Support DevSecOps - Part 4
THE RIGHT PEOPLE
Investment in quality people is the single best investment in tooling an organization can make to support DevSecOps. From the executives that need to make the command decisions that weigh risk versus business goal, to the developers writing the applications, to the security teams that are trying to implement "Security at the Speed of Code." Without an investment in quality people, you end up with a hamstrung environment where even the most modest security practices are overlooked in favor of doing what is "easy" or "nimble." The "fail fast" mantra of DevOps should not be applied to a security program wherein the consumer bears all the weight of an unfortunate event.
John Stauffacher
Director - Offensive Security, Trace3
DEVSECOPS CULTURE
Your most important tool needed for DevSecOps isn't a actually tool, or even a process: it's culture. You can influence culture — having support from the top is vital — but you can't prescribe it. Instead, you'll need to build a multi-disciplinary team of enthusiasts: not just security experts, but auditors, docs, ops and testing people and beyond. You'll help them through failures and successes, and then encourage them to spread the word across your organization: they become your most important tool for success.
Mike Bursell
Chief Security Architect, Red Hat
DevSecOps is a culture and hence implementing it is mainly a mindset change. The tools will only drive the change, but the most important part is to go from having separate teams with siloed responsibilities in the software development lifecycle to having teams that are fully responsible for implementing, testing and running their code in production.
Isa Vilacides
Quality Engineering Manager, CloudBees
COLLABORATION
Probably the most critical tool when trying to bring security colleagues along on your DevOps transformation is a whiteboard and a stack of post-it notes. Fundamentally the collaboration will rise or fall based on how well people from different teams and with different skills work together. Getting everyone physically together upfront, taking people away from how things work day-to-day, and holding a well organized and well run set of workshops is a great first step on your DevOps journey.
Gareth Rushgrove
Product Manager, Docker
EMPATHY
Simply putting developers and security people into the same cube farm and telling them to work together won't work, of course — and will likely be counterproductive. Collaboration is key — but even the best collaboration tool in the world won't facilitate cooperation among people who feel they are in an adversarial relationship with each other. Just as with DevOps itself, therefore, the most important tool for DevSecOps is empathy — the ability to put yourself into the other person's shoes and see the problem space from their point of view. Once the team has sufficient empathy for each other, collaboration tooling is important to be sure — but tools don't make high-performance teams.
Jason Bloomberg
President, Intellyx
Industry News
NightVision launched a new software testing and security solution that enables developers to identify, locate, and remediate exploitable vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
NXT1 has signed the Secure by Design Pledge introduced by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
Sonar announced that SonarQube is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace, enabling organizations to accelerate DevOps transformations in the cloud, modernize software development workflows, and deliver higher-quality, secure applications.
Progress announced the latest release of Progress Telerik® and Progress Kendo UI, the most powerful .NET and JavaScript UI libraries and tools for application development. Today's release delivers artificial intelligence (AI) prompts to application interfaces, design-to-code productivity, accessibility features and a series of new UI components, including the first-to-market Blazor Spreadsheet component.
JFrog and GitHub announced a new partnership to drive a best of breed, integrated platform solution, allowing joint customers to holistically manage EveryOps for developers, including DevOps, DevSecOps, MLOps and GenAI-powered apps.
Harness entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Split Software, a Feature Management and Experimentation provider.
Sensedia announced the launch of Sensedia AI Copilot, an AI assistant designed to facilitate all steps of API Management, Governance and Application Integrations.
Picus Security announced security validation for Kubernetes.
Kong announced the general availability of Kong Gateway Open Source (OSS) 3.7.
Azul announced the launch of its PartnerConnect training and certification program to empower channel partners to provide advanced Java advisory and delivery services.
Mendix announced a partnership with Snowflake to enable the enterprise to activate and drive maximum value from their data through low-code application development.
LaunchDarkly set the stage for “shipping at the speed of now” with the unveiling of new features, empowering engineering teams to streamline releases and accelerate the pace of innovation.
Tigera launched new features for Calico Enterprise and Calico Cloud, extending the products' Runtime Threat Defense capabilities.
Cirata announced the latest version of Cirata Gerrit MultiSite®.