Interop 2021: Integrate Cybersecurity Planning Into All Dev Stages
May 13, 2021 – Article posted on ITPro Today
Of all of the themes presented at this year’s Interop Digital 2021 conference on cybersecurity’s changing role in IT, none was more pervasive than the theme of integrating security into every stage of the development process and making cybersecurity planning a priority through the organization.
Incorporating cybersecurity planning into the application development process isn’t an easy thing to do, but off-the-shelf tooling can ease the pain. The decision of how much security tooling developers should buy versus how much they should build is a big part of that discussion. In general, application security vendors are creating very usable, plug-and-play self-service tools for integration into development pipelines. Sometimes, developers may choose to go for these self-service platforms because of staffing shortages or time constraints. But there are plenty of times when that approach to application development security may not make sense. It’s a complicated process that’s not one-size-fits-all.
“It’s about developers having everything they need when they need it at the touch of their fingertips, with tools that are developer-friendly,” said Kristen Bell, senior manager for AppSec engineering at GuidePoint Security. “If we’re slowing them down, if the tools are noisy or not working for them, they get a very bad taste in their mouth very quickly.”
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