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Security in The New Normal Requires an Agile Approach By Danny Presten, Chief Methodologist at Digital.ai Phishing attacks are up 600%, ransomware attacks have increased 148%, and the FBI has reported a 300% increase in cybercrimes. Cyber criminals are stepping up their game during the COVID-19 pandemic and, to ensure safety and security, businesses must do the same. To keep pace with the ever-increasing threat level and achieve results in the new normal of remote-based working, many organisations are taking an Agile approach. Once thought of as the domain of DevOps, Agile is making its way into DevSecOps, cybersecurity and beyond, and for good reason. Agile is an iterative way of working that encourages rapidly releasing smaller slices of value as opposed to the long lead in times of larger, traditional projects. In this way, results can be continuously improved as quickly as circumstances change to meet ever evolving business needs. Many companies have benefited from an Agile approach to delivering software and now organisations are expanding those ways of working to include more and more security teams. Agile offers huge benefits in cybersecurity where security teams are faced with threats that are continually evolving, and bad actors who will look to adjust their methods almost instantaneously to find the best attack vector. Cyber Defense eMagazine – August 2020 Edition 80 Copyright © 2020, Cyber Defense Magazine. All rights reserved worldwide.
The 14 th Annual State of Agile Report explores this uptake and the reasons for it, along with wider issues concerning Agile. The importance of Agile The 14 th Annual State of Agile report, based on a survey of more than 1,000 global IT and business professionals, highlights how Agile adoption improves key capabilities needed to respond to current business challenges. Around six in ten respondents said Agile has both helped increase speed to market and improved team productivity. A follow up survey conducted in mid-May 2020 to learn more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Agile adoption revealed that 55 percent of respondents said their company plans to increase the use of Agile in the next 12-24 months. This is a rise of 13 percent over the original survey completed just five months previously. Additionally, 43 percent of organisations said their momentum for Agile adoption has increased over the past 90 days, with 15 percent saying the increase is significant. The main catalyst for organisations to adopt Agile comes from wanting to accelerate delivery of value to customers as well as being able to quickly respond to changing circumstances. Indeed, our survey found that the second largest reason for adopting Agile is to enhance the ability to manage changing priorities, with two-thirds (63 percent) of respondents citing this as a key motivator. This key advantage has led to Agile being adopted in many areas of the business. Software development and IT are understandably the most popular at 37 percent and 26 percent. However, increasingly it is being utilised in operations, marketing, HR and sales. Cybersecurity is no exception as Agile can help security teams combat continually evolving threats. The diffusion of Agile principles The concept of Agile has been around for many years now. It began in the late 2000s with the Scrum framework, which focuses on teamwork, accountability and iterative releases for the development of hardware and software. This was expanded throughout the early 2000s through a variety of scaling frameworks allowing multiple small teams to collaborate effectively on various parts of the product. Today teams collaborate in a variety of ways beyond the traditional face to face interactions with 71 percent of companies reporting teams collaborating across multiple geographies. As companies began to benefit from increased development productivity, they realised their next bottleneck was actually getting the new product to production. This led to the rise in prominence of DevOps in the middle of the 2010s ushering in an expansion in Agile practices and culture. To that end more than 90 percent of respondents are now placing a high value on DevOps and 75 percent of organisations are actively planning and/or implementing transformation in this area. Organisations going through their DevOps transformation look to achieve accelerated delivery speed (70 percent), improved quality (62 percent) and reduced risk (48 percent). In an increasingly digital world, it’s critical to get high quality, valuable software to consumers as rapidly as possible. It’s clear that organisations are realising focus in this area is critical for their survival. As DevOps began to address operational bottlenecks, organisations started to see issues in other areas and have realised they need to look at the entire end-to-end value stream. Value Stream Management Cyber Defense eMagazine – August 2020 Edition 81 Copyright © 2020, Cyber Defense Magazine. All rights reserved worldwide.
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