John Zorabedian is a blogger, content marketer, and research editor. He has a background in marketing and journalism, writing about IT security, technology, business, politics and culture. He lives and works in the Boston area.
Whenever there’s a major data breach announced in the news, I think about how there must be other breaches happening that we don’t even know about. Because, although cyberattackers frequently target known vulnerabilities in software, the victims are unlikely to know they were vulnerable until it is…
The shortage of cybersecurity professionals is on pace to reach 1.5 million empty positions globally by 2020, according to Frost & Sullivan. Yet, as the digital economy relies on rapid innovation in software, the growing demand for developers with security skills is also dangerously outpacing…
The goal of DevSecOps is to build a bridge between fast and secure software development. Some in the DevOps and AppSec universe maintain that the primary foundations of a DevOps or DevSecOps initiative are the right mindset about quality, and processes that support continuous improvement and…
With the proliferation of attacks and breaches at the application layer, it's clear that application security testing is a growing necessity. What's less clear is how organizations can hope to bridge the gap between the priorities of development, operations, and security teams. To understand how…
Securing any development framework – whether Waterfall, Agile or DevOps – requires changes of culture, process, and technology. But unlike the straightforward flow of Waterfall, where security comes at the end of the process, it's less clear where security fits in Agile and DevOps.
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As business success in the digital economy increasingly depends on software innovation, development teams are moving to faster and more frequent deployment, enabled by the shift from Waterfall to Agile and DevOps. Yet getting to DevOps doesn't happen overnight. It's a journey, with a gradual…
