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5 BUSINESS REASONS WHY EVERY CISO SHOULD CONSIDER SECURITY-AS-CODE




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THE TIDES ARE CHANGING

Aside from their primary area of focus, the reality is that every enterprise is
now also in the software business.

CIOs and CISOs everywhere must now provide apps of high quality and solid
security that are expected to rival those of Amazon, Google, or Meta. Updates
must be released regularly to address security concerns, fix bugs, and
incorporate new features and functions to remain competitive.

This constant need for innovation drives how companies build, run, and secure
their applications.

During this continuous cycle of innovation, one crucial metric enterprises must
keep track of is commit-to-deploy time, which measures the amount of time it
takes for a commit to reach production. The lower the deployment time, the less
expensive it is.

While this speed can benefit customers as they can enjoy app improvements
faster, it presents a significant challenge to security teams to ensure that all
deployments are tested for vulnerabilities.

Despite the advances in security platforms throughout the years and the effort
to shift left, security is still the most time-consuming phase of today’s
software development cycle. The problem is that anytime the application code is
touched, it presents the opportunity for new vulnerabilities, PLUS the
recurrence of past vulnerabilities to surface.

Consider that the average company uses over 200 applications, so the scale of
the above security checks suddenly goes well beyond what almost any company can
handle. In fact, because of this challenge, 79% of companies knowingly push
vulnerable code to production. This process isn’t working, and we believe there
is a better way.


SECURITY-AS-CODE

Security-as-Code is the practice of leveraging machine-readable definition files
that use high-level descriptive coding language to automate security behavior in
the runtime.



In simpler terms, Security-as-Code provides security teams control through
policy, giving them everything needed to scale visibility and protection. This
approach drastically reduces reliance on human intervention and grants security
teams application protection at scale by ensuring controls through policy.

In a nutshell, it enables security teams to define once and secure constantly.
On the flip side, this allows the application engineers the time to focus on
development rather than remediating vulnerabilities discovered by the security
teams.

Ultimately Security-as-Code is the modern way to scale security with modern
software development.


WHAT CAN SECURITY-AS-CODE DO FOR ME?

Understanding what it is, here are five key business capabilities that
Security-as-Code can provide any enterprise – large or small. We’ve gathered
real-world examples to show how enterprises benefit from their Security-as-Code
initiatives.

 1. Faster time to market
 2. IT cost optimization
 3. Improved scalability and coverage
 4. Immediate time to remediation
 5. Engineering and security alignment


1. FASTER TIME TO MARKET (IMPROVED DEPLOYMENT EFFICIENCIES)

Security-as-Code enables more agile development and security. You can now remove
complex and manual security operations from the modern software development
process. Instead of engineering teams writing code and handing it off to
security to scan, investigate, and give feedback, you now proactively secure
vulnerabilities through policy instead of waiting for problems to arise during
testing or deployment.

Security-as-Code allows your IT teams to safeguard a more significant number of
applications across many servers, both on-premise and in the cloud. The
protection applied through Security-as-Code is immutable, meaning no one can
introduce code to the codebase that can supersede the security defined on your
policy. Immutable security shortens the software development process for all
your applications, not just the top five (the only ones you had the capacity
for).

REAL-WORLD CASE STUDY

One of the top three auto manufacturers was able to identify and patch Log4j
vulnerabilities across thousands of applications within 3 minutes, without
developer involvement or support tickets. See how they were able to do that in
this video.


2. IT COST OPTIMIZATION

Security-as-Code can help your enterprise cut costs drastically if you’re
operating at a massive scale.

Security-as-Code transforms the economics of application security by removing
toil from the modern software development process. Before Security-as-Code,
security teams often manually scanned applications for new and reintroduced
vulnerabilities, then went back and forth with engineering to fix the
vulnerabilities before deployment, or rolled the dice and hoped their Web
Application Firewall (WAF) would stop potential exploits.

Security-as-Code goes one step further than typical security solutions that make
educated guesses about the exploitability of an application by treating the
symptom instead of the cause of an exploit.

When your security platform treats a cause rather than a symptom, security teams
achieve autonomy and no longer rely on time and effort from engineering.

The result is a streamlined process to build modern software with no time
wasted.

REAL-WORLD CASE STUDY

Alcatel-Lucent, a global telecommunications equipment company, approached
Waratek to learn more about Security-as-Code to remediate a crypto-miner they
knew but couldn’t remediate without completely rebuilding their infrastructure
and deploying their application from scratch. They could secure the
vulnerability through Security-as-Code, saving dozens of engineering hours and
unknowable expenses through further exploits.


3. IMPROVED SCALABILITY AND COVERAGE

Consider that most typical security platforms are expensive and tedious, making
it challenging to protect more than a handful of applications both economically
and with human capital.

When your security team scans an application or receives an alert about an
exploit, they must first investigate whether the results are credible. According
to our latest industry report, 59% of security teams spend days, weeks, or even
months per year, investigating false positives.

Security-as-Code removes the possibility of false positives. When false
positives don’t happen, the security-to-engineering feedback loop becomes
instant.

Coupled with the introduction of autonomy to the security team, the result of
removing false positives is an enterprise that is, for the first time, capable
of economically securing every application.

REAL-WORLD CASE STUDY

A major hotel chain is an early Security-as-Code adopter and has realized
significant cost savings. For the past three years, they’ve successfully secured
2,500 applications in production at scale, resulting in better IT resource
utilization.


4. IMMEDIATE TIME TO REMEDIATION

Reducing dwell time has become more crucial as attack vectors have grown yearly.

Enterprises must detect assaults in less than one minute, investigate them in
under 10 minutes, and resolve them in an hour or less to minimize losses.

The most significant advantage of Security-as-Code is that it reduces the
time-to-remediation to milliseconds, eliminating attacker dwell time.
Security-as-Code enables teams to deploy new rules in real-time without downtime
or deployment.

REAL-WORLD CASE STUDY

A Fortune 100 bank and long-term Security-as-Code adopter had significant issues
with legacy Java and consistently failed to meet the requirements of the PCI
standards council. After implementing Security-as-Code, the bank remediated all
29 Java 6u19 vulnerabilities identified by Qualys, and performance overhead
improved by nearly 7%.


5. ENGINEERING AND SECURITY ALIGNMENT

A primary goal of the DevSecOps movement is to reduce the feedback loop between
engineering and security.

Security-as-Code fulfills that objective by removing the need for a feedback
loop, allowing engineering and security to do their respective jobs effectively
and safely without unnecessary back-and-forth.

Using the Security-as-Code approach can help engineering scale, and the entire
modern software development process can stay agile throughout every step.

The net result is that both groups can focus on their KPIs while only
overlapping when joint projects emerge, not just in the case of an emergency.


WHAT’S NEXT?

There you have five reasons why every CISO should consider Security-as-Code.

You likely still have questions such as:

 * What happens when you decide to adopt Security-as-Code?
 * How do you deploy immutable security?
 * How do you achieve the most leverage securing in the runtime for most of your
   attack vectors instead of the CI/CD pipeline?
 * How do you save time when securing thousands of applications?

Waratek has built the only solution to help your teams get the most out of the
Security-as-Code approach and scale security with the modern software
development process.

Want to learn more about how to answer all of the questions above? Check out our
self-guided demo.


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