Silos no more: From security to DevSecOps
The DXC Digital Directions series of papers provides insights into achieving new levels of innovation, productivity and investment as companies scale their digital efforts.
Read an excerpt below from the position paper, Master digital banking to succeed in financial services.
Financial services providers have been good at building IT silos, and that’s too bad, because in their transition to digital businesses, these organizations will find those silos to be impediments. Silos, whether for data or organizations, were useful when banks ran their core systems on rigid, rules-bound mainframes. But in today’s fast-moving, fast-changing marketplace, those silos are akin to giving a 100-pound dumbbell to a track sprinter.
Over the last few years, the DevOps movement has demonstrated the power of breaking down IT silos. By encouraging greater cooperation and collaboration between developers and operations staff, two groups that had formerly been separated by silos, DevOps helps organizations move quickly and innovate faster. Now a similar movement is coming to cyber security.
Known as DevSecOps, this movement aims to enable three IT groups — development, security and operations — to work together and deploy secure systems faster and better than ever.
Importantly for banking, DevSecOps also ensures that applications of a system have the instrumentation needed to track transactions from application to application. This creates a log, or “digital trail,” that can then be reviewed by machine-learning systems to suggest better and safer ways to run the workloads in the future. Also, machine learning can add continual improvements, creating a banking platform that gets better with time.
Continue reading the position paper, Master digital banking to succeed in financial services.