and software itself are going through arguably the most innovative time period in history. While we barely had smartphones even a decade ago, today, these phones can essentially run our lives and can even be our virtual assistants. That’s right, things like Siri and similar virtual assistants can answer our questions, tell us the weather and do so much more.
Not only that, but certain technologies are even able to share data and communicate with one another, which is known as the
Internet of Things (IoT). An example of this is wearables like smartwatches that can communicate wirelessly with your mobile phone. However, that is just one of
many different examples of IoT. Many of us use products or software that abide by IoT, without even knowing it, which is the whole point of IoT after all.
IoT can help streamline our often-busy lives and make our lives a little bit easier to manage and handle and does so without any input or work from us. Look for 2018 to see an explosion in IoT and the various products, platforms and softwares that go along with it. There are already billions of devices that can be connected, but plenty more are to come.
However, while the IoT is undoubtedly a great thing and has helped millions of people in a variety of ways, it’s not all peaches and cream. With all of this technology and the ability for it to communicate with each other, this type of technology can also invite a range of different security issues and cyber threats.
In the past few years, there have been
several high profile cases of a company's software being hacked or compromised. This has led to the information of billions of different people’s personal information being potentially at risk. As the connectedness of technology and software continues to grow, we have to realize that security needs to be a top priority.
Everyone says
security is the top priority, yet companies keep getting hacked as a result of cutting corners or not making security as big of a concern as it deserves to be. If this doesn't change, these data breaches will, unfortunately, continue to happen, and could get worse due to the interconnectivity of a lot of the technology we used nowadays.
A good way to potentially solve these issues is to embrace the culture and practice of Devops. Devops is essentially unifying both software development and software and strongly advocates both monitoring and automation all throughout the entire process of the construction and development or software.
Devops and security should go hand in hand and can definitely help companies minimize the damage of security breaches due to their ability to track down problems within the deployment or application of the software being used.