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Fix the developers vs. security conflict by shifting further left
- Collaboration between development and security teams can become difficult and lower efficacy of cloud security, due to the constant tension between developers and security teams over conflicting toolchains and manual reviews. It is difficult to get both teams to operate from the same playbook, so platform teams are key in removing conflicting toolchains in order to improve this. The 'shift-left' movement is now focusing on shifting left through tools instead of only culture or skilling, by embedding policies into templates and making sure all reinforced policies and best practices are taken care of before any code and applications make it through to production. Modern Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) adheres to this and Security Lifecycle Management (SLM), which aims to manage the most sensitive data, especially secrets/credentials, from creation to expiration or revocation. Establishing a standardised shared service with an automated workflow is key with tools such as Hashicorp Terraform being a popular method of implementation. Hashicorp's Infrastructure Cloud has also played a critical role in modern SLM practices with its successful implementation by companies such as Canva.
- Nearly two-thirds of CISOs and developers agree that a lack of communication and collaboration is a problem in implementing better software supply chain security. Tooling is one of the main areas of disagreement, with developers suggesting that their security team's requirements interfere with productivity. This emphasizes the importance of platform teams removing one of the key obstacles; conflicting toolchains that cause inefficiencies and introduce vulnerabilities. Platform teams play an important role in solving these impedance issues, they can eliminate the friction between teams and enable the quick and easy deployment of apps. The infrastructure of cloud security should have security baked-into various templates developers use to start a project.
- The shift-left movement, which began as an attempt to fix friction between developer and security teams when quality assurance and security checks were only conducted at the end of an application's development lifecycle, has now evolved to include shifting left through embedding policies and best practices before any code or applications make it through to the production environment.
- By using platforms, such as Hashicorp's Terraform and Hashicorp's Vault, infrastructure lifecycle management (ILM) can become systematic and repeatable, thus fostering a standardized infrastructure management process with curated self-service workflows and tools. Meanwhile, Security Lifecycle Management (SLM) is all about secrets management to secure sensitive credentials and impulsively enable encrypt data during transit.
- With a strong focus on cloud security and the developer experience, modern platforms need tools that foster secure and consistent workflows which support all teams participating in the delivery pipeline.
- HashiCorp's tools, such as Terraform and the Lifetime Cloud, have become trusted ILM and SLM partners for many customers and have successfully helped companies reduce friction between security and development teams, establishing an efficient, golden developer path.
- An effective cloud security program eliminates friction, enables reproducibility, and establishes infrastructure automation, eliminating many of the common friction points between security and dev teams that hinder production speed and time to market.
- Central secrets control planes, access control lists limiting lateral movement, dynamic credentials, encryption, and auditing are important SLM components that ensure an effective, scalable secrets management platform is in place. HashiCorp Vault is a popular tool for many companies.
- Misaligned priorities, mismatched tools, and inconsistent workflows are the precursors of friction between security and development teams. It is essential that they work in unison to prevent security breaches while increasing productivity and efficiency.
- To eliminate friction, accelerate production, and reduce risk costs, it is important to streamline the dev and security collaboration.
- The Infrastructure Cloud can help organisations shift left by taking the burden of implementing security requirements from development teams and removing friction points between security and dev teams. To learn more about this, read our white paper available from the article's resource section.
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