Datadog's Approach to DevSecOps: An Executive Perspective | Datadog
Editor’s note: Jeremy Garcia, VP of Technical Community and Open Source at Datadog, explains why fostering an organization-wide culture and practice of DevSecOps is essential for deploying resilient, secure applications and services. Over the past decade, DevSecOps has become a popular buzzword in the tech industry. But even before that, it had established its role in addressing a long-standing problem: siloed workstreams between DevOps and security teams, which weaken an organization’s security posture and bog down software development and release cycles. For many organizations, the practice of securing infrastructure and applications has typically been perceived as operating from within an ivory tower. Security practices, tools, and workflows were isolated from development and operations. Developers often saw security practices as blockers that pulled them away from their projects late in the game. Likewise, security engineers had no view or understanding of development workflows or
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