Enterprise infrastructure, integration and solution delivery are enjoying significant acceleration as a result of the “as a Service” model. The slower Waterfall approach to software iteration has yielded to the Agile methodology, which enables fast and continuous development and delivery. Automation must be a component of Agile to accelerate quality assurance and change management.
As all this change takes places, a more foundational goal is to make security and compliance part of the development process from the start. In order for this to succeed, teams must take on a DevOps mindset regarding these aspects. If security and compliance are to become native to the development process, then they need to adopt a development operations (DevOps) cadence of sustained engineering that prioritize speed of delivery and automation of workflow.