The race to build better more secure business software is a race against the nefarious, often more motivated, more creative, and more resourced forces of hackers.
A hacker who wants to breach your system sees your system as just that – a system. Alternately, in most companies, your developer on product-one does his part the best he can with the tools and languages he knows, the guy developing the second product does the best he can with what he knows; your DevOps guy delivers based on what he knows; and your security guy tries to shore the whole thing up with whatever tools he has access to.
In most companies, no one sees and understands and builds with the security of the system in mind as the first priority, as a foundation not only to the software but to the business.
As a result, hackers often see your software ecosystem better than you do. And, no amount of retroactive, or patch-based, security approaches are going to hide systemic weaknesses from a motivated hacker.
The good news is that the world is waking up to this reality. The top growing cybersecurity skills – as shown in the graphic – are reaching deeper and earlier into the product development lifecycle.
But, here is the challenge: creating and setting standards for how security gets enabled in all phases of the product lifecycle is fundamental. But, the traditional approach to deploying and enforcing security standards remains mostly a matter of training.
Training alone isn’t going to cut it.
While we need our application developers and our DevOps guys and cloud guys steeped in security, we also need to eliminate as much as possible the human error that invariably enters the software development process.
This is where automation comes in.
We need to enhance the efforts to increase our cybersecurity skills in individuals with approaches – not tools – that automate and enforce security standards at the inception of a product and with every subsequent code commit.
If there is a best way to develop applications more securely and a best way to set up DevOps securely and a best way to set up cloud infrastructure securely – which there is – then these tasks can and should be automated.
This is what BOS does. With BOS, you can configure your infrastructure, your DevOps, your microservices architecture, your multi-tenancy, and your security and we automate the implementation accordingly. We then provide you with a dashboard that provides complete visibility, observability, and monitoring of your various products and applications. Most companies could not commercially rationalize building what BOS is ready to automate for you.
Our automation ensures that security begins with your architecture and extends right through each code commit as you build and iterate on your products over time.
