3 years ago

Category: Software, Business, Security, Data, automation

CloudBees has expanded its CI/CD platform to include a wider range of security features that the company says offers DevSecOps teams more visibility and control throughout the software production and deployment lifecycle. The announcement also reflects one of CloudBees’ themes, echoed during this week’s DevOps World 2020, about why many organizations need to better integrate all stakeholders that constitute DevOps — including security teams — and why the right tools are required to support that. As one of the “core tenants of security,” the idea is “to be secure in every single part of the toolchain: secure in development, secure in delivery and secure in production,” CloudBees’ Buffi Gresh, vice president, product business teams, said during her DevOps World keynote this week.

CloudBees communicated the following new SecOps-related features for its CI/CD platform: The audit-ready feature represents an additional example of how automation is increasingly critical for SecOps, as well as for optimizing CI/CD and DevOps in general, said Avantika Mathur, senior product manager, for CloudBees.

You can look at everything that happened in between to ensure that each stage of software was tested and secure as it went along the way — that disposition is, to me, DevSecOps,” Ahmed said.