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How to make your developer organization more efficient

CIO Business Intelligence

Developers are hired for their coding skills, but often spend too much time on information-finding, setup tasks, and manual processes. To combat wasted time and effort, Discover® Financial Services championed a few initiatives to help developers get back to what they do best: developing. The result?

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Scaling security: How to build security into the entire development pipeline

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When an application is finally ready for deployment, the last thing the development team wants to hear is: “Stop! If you want to make a change, make it in the early stages of the software development lifecycle,” said Pratiksha Panesar, director of cybersecurity at Discover Financial Services. There’s a security issue.”

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Beyond DevSecOps: Why fintech companies need to consider DevSecRegOps

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DevSecOps refers to development, security, and operations. As a practice, DevSecOps is a way to engrain practices in your SDLC that ensures security becomes a shared responsibility throughout the IT lifecycle. Visit Discover Technology to learn how Discover developers approach application development.

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Is it worth measuring software developer productivity? CIOs weigh in

CIO Business Intelligence

At the same time, developers are scarce, and the demand for new software is high. This has spurred interest around understanding and measuring developer productivity, says Keith Mann, senior director, analyst, at Gartner. Organizations need to get the most out of the limited number of developers they’ve got,” he says.

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What executives should know about CNAPP

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First termed in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Cloud Security, 2021, a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) is, as the name implies, a platform approach for securing applications that are cloud-native across the span of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) of the applications. Why is it important in cybersecurity?

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Getting ahead of cyberattacks with a DevSecOps approach to web application security

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According to GitLab’s 2023 Global DevSecOps Report , 56% of organizations report using DevOps or DevSecOps methodologies, growing roughly 10% from 2022, for improved security, higher developer velocity, cost and time savings, and better collaboration. What is DevSecOps?

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What Executives Should Know About Shift-Left Security

CIO Business Intelligence

By Zachary Malone, SE Academy Manager at Palo Alto Networks The term “shift left” is a reference to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) that describes the phases of the process developers follow to create an application. Why is shift-left security important in cybersecurity?