Security a key priority, challenge for DevOps teams

Increasing security and compliance demands, as well as accelerated software delivery, and toolchain consolidation have prompted nearly 75% of DevOps professionals to have either implemented or intended to implement a DevOps platform within the year, TechRepublic reports. Most organizations have named security as their highest investment priority, surpassing cloud computing, with more than 50% of security team members either adopting or planning to adopt a shift left security strategy, according to a GitLab survey. However, the findings showed that while more than half cited security as a performance metric for their organizations' developers, half of security professionals noted that three-quarters of vulnerabilities are not being identified by developers. Moreover, DevSecOps adoption has been lagging in the public sector. "Theres still a ways to go for the public sector to catch up with its private sector counterpart in terms of software release speed and innovation. theres still a ways to go for the public sector to catch up with its private sector counterpart in terms of software release speed and innovation," said GitLab Vice President of Public Sector Bob Stevens.