From the course: DevSecOps: Automated Security Testing

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Security and DevOps history in short

Security and DevOps history in short

From the course: DevSecOps: Automated Security Testing

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Security and DevOps history in short

- [Instructor] There is something we need to address before getting into into all the technical content. Security is an outsider in most organizations. Or, said another way, security is usually a silo much like operations was at the start of the DevOps movement. Now, you could pass over this statement and rush to implement solutions. However, that would be a mistake. Instead, let's take a brief moment and build some understanding that will help us do the security testing in the modern context of software development. One of the reasons security worked itself into being a silo is that it was born out of the waterfall methodology for software development. The waterfall methodology envisions a project as a linear series of tasks, starting with project formation, then writing specifications, then doing development, then at the very end of a months-long, sometimes year-long process, testing occurs. Then security finally has a chance to review the project just before it goes to production…

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