Reducing risk with end-to-end application security automation
Cindy Blake · Network Security · 2020
No one wants to be ‘that guy’ – the one that got the company hacked. The one who made a simple but stupid mistake when developing a new software application, such as including a password in the code. No one wants to be ‘the person who got the company hacked’ – the one who made a simple mistake when developing software, such as including a password in the code. The best way to reduce this kind of risk is through automation, argues Cindy Blake of GitLab. By automating application security scanning, vulnerability remediation and monitoring the application's infrastructure, human error is removed and consistency is applied. And the best way to reduce the risk of non-compliance with regulatory controls is by automating them and having traceability along the way to capture who changed what, when and why.