Meet Ali Golshan, CTO and co-founder at StackRox, a Mountain View, Calif.-based leader in security for containers and Kubernetes. Prior to StackRox, he was the Founder & CTO of Cyphort (acquired by Juniper Networks) and led the company's product strategy and research initiatives. Previously, he worked as a security researcher and engineer at Microsoft and PwC. His career started in government, conducting security and vulnerability research for the intelligence community. Here, we talk to Golshan about the benefits of DevOps. 

Security magazine: What is DevOps? Is this a modern movement?

Golshan: DevOps, as the name implies, occupies the middle ground between application developers and infrastructure operators. The shift towards DevOps as an organizational function is fairly modern, driven by increased degrees of compute virtualization and automation in the datacenter. This shift has accelerated as Kubernetes emerged as the standard for container orchestration; its principles of microservices architecture, declarative definition, and immutable infrastructure are enablers for DevOps (and DevSecOps).

Security magazine: How does your focus on Kubernetes help DevOps and security teams operationalize security across the full container lifecycle?