DevSecOps and Security Automation – Making Application Security a Part of Development
In my previous article on the GovDevSecOpsHub, I examined the need for identifying and eliminating application-level cybersecurity vulnerabilities – such as those found in IaC and APIs – and explained why application security is becoming such a difficult challenge for…
The Up-Hill Climb of Modern Application Security
According to the analyst firm Gartner, “Over 70 percent of security vulnerabilities exist at the application layer, not the network layer.” This number was even higher in findings by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which found that…
What the StackRox Acquisition Means for Red Hat Customers – a Q&A with Michael Epley
Following their January 2021 acquisition of StackRox, the GovDevSecOpsHub sat down with Red Hat’s Chief Architect and Security Strategist for Public Sector, Michael Epley, for an in-depth, three-part interview series about the security challenges that today’s more complicated applications create…
Two New Attack Vectors Creating an AppSec Imperative for Development Teams
As digital transformation initiatives sweep across the government and military, the role of software continues to grow and increase in importance. Today, every government agency and military organization is looking to embrace applications that can make their workforce more effective,…
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It’s Time to Evolve from DevOps to DevSecOps
As I discussed in my last piece on the GovDevSecOpsHub, the DevOps approach to software…

DevOps: Why it’s Important and Why it’s Not Enough
Over the past decade we’ve seen a movement away from traditional, siloed software and application…