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WHY DEVOPS TEAMS NEED SECURITY SKILLS AND HOW SHIFT LEFT TOOLS HELP

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Developers need cloud-native security skills and tools to build secure code from
the start to mitigate risks.

Trisha Paine



The pace of new technology has accelerated with the introduction of public
clouds. Modern application architectures are cloud-native and built based on
microservice architectures. The adoption of containers, serverless functions and
microservices is increasing rapidly, rendering traditional security approaches
obsolete. Furthermore, with the advent of continuous integration and continuous
delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, the volume of deployments is rising exponentially.

With this momentum, it’s becoming more difficult for your clients to detect and
manage software vulnerabilities. To compound this, companies are adding more and
more DevOps teams, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices with various permissions
and capabilities just to keep up with their business demands. This only
increases the attack surface, making security know-how a crucial skill for every
developer today.



This article explores why you should encourage your clients to provide their
developers who work in the cloud with sufficient cloud-native security skills,
and gives recommendations on tooling to make it seamless and streamlined.


THE DANGERS OF NATIVE CLOUD COMPUTING

Not surprisingly, granting inexperienced people access to cloud resources is
dangerous. Without proper tools and training, developers simply don’t have the
skills or time to check for vulnerabilities. In addition, developers are
primarily concerned with writing code and achieving deadlines — with security
often an afterthought or something they think can be plugged in at a later
stage.

Friction on both development and security sides is often an issue. The DevOps
team is frustrated by the friction added by invasive security tools, so it will
turn off security checks and scans in the name of productivity. The security
team, meanwhile, is frustrated because it depends on the DevOps team to leave
the security mechanisms intact. Striking a balance between delivery speed and
security is a delicate process.


REAL-WORLD SECURITY BREACHES IMPACTING YOUR CLIENTS

There are genuine security risks your clients face in the context of developers
experimenting in the cloud, even in sandboxed environments.

For example, it’s tempting to use HTTP instead of HTTPS to “just quickly try
something out” without the hassle of managing SSL certificates. Doing this
leaves network traffic unencrypted and vulnerable to eavesdropping.



Also, when developing a web application, scanning for vulnerable packages is
usually an afterthought for developers, who are often under pressure to deliver
a new feature or bug fix in a minimal time frame. If such an app is ever exposed
on the internet, there’s a risk that an attacker could exploit this
vulnerability.

Having an attacker break into a development environment opens it to even greater
exposure once they break in. For instance, there have been cases where
developers use staging data that is a copy of actual past data. Even if such
data isn’t available on a live production site, it might still contain
sensitive, personally identifiable information.

A final scenario would be proprietary code that is considered a business
advantage; if an attacker or competitor gains knowledge of such code, it could
lead to a significant loss for the business. Alternatively, citing back to
Log4j, using vulnerable code from third-party repositories could open the
environment to even more security incidents.


THE ‘SHIFT LEFT’ PARADIGM

Shift left is a nascent term for what DevSecOps is primarily concerned with and
can be summarized using the medical maxim: “Prevention is better than cure.”

In other words: Preventing security threats before and during the development
phase is a lot cheaper than detecting and fixing them later in production.

This idea has two goals:

 * First, give DevOps teams automated tools that enable them to securely develop
   software in cloud environments without adding friction to their day-to-day
   work. These tools have to step in early in the development process to ensure
   they find issues before any time-consuming deployments happen. Even if
   they’re not in production, such deployments can take hours to complete, so a
   rollback would be expensive.
 * Second, give security teams ease-of-mind by knowing that security is
   embedded, frictionless and automated. If these tools aren’t frictionless, the
   security teams always fear that DevOps will sooner or later deactivate them
   to meet a deadline. This fear can lead them to contact DevOps more frequently
   to ensure that everything is still running securely and, in turn, slow the
   delivery process even more.


HOW TO ENCOURAGE DEVOPS TO INNOVATE SAFELY IN THE CLOUD

When consulting with your clients, encourage them to …

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