DevSecOps: who's responsible?

2023-03-04 08:20:00

Someone on Discord asked: "Question: Does DevSecOps type of work fall under ISSO's roles and responsibilities?"

That got me thinking. 

IMO: DevSecOps, like many things in InfoSec, is something everybody needs to get in on! 

Architects need to define reference designs and standards. The ISO needs to define requirements based on regulations and laws and industry standards. An AppSec team needs to provide the tooling. Another team needs to provide CI/CD pipeline integration for these tools. And yes, the devops squads themselves need to actually do stuff with all of the aforementioned things. Someone needs to provides trainings, someone needs to be doing vulnerability management. Etc.

One book on the subject which I heartily recommend, is the Application Security Program Handbook, by Derek Fisher.

I bought that book right after leaving my previous AppSec role, where we spent two years building an AppSec team that did a lot of things from that list. I was amazed by the book, because cover to cover it's everything we self-taught over those two years.


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