“It’s difficult to make forecasts, especially about the future,” mused movie mogul, Samuel Goldwyn. With the rapid changes in digital transformation, 2019 is likely to surprise us in significant ways. But one thing is certain: IT predictions for 2019 will include swift expansion into the cloud and solutions for the myriad challenges of providing security, compliance and business continuance across the growing on premise and cloud estates.

IT security organizations today are judged on how they enable business transformation and innovation. They are tasked with delivering new applications to users and introducing new technologies that will capture new customers, improve productivity and lower costs. They are expected to be agile so they can respond faster than competitors to changing customer and market needs.

From the report, “This technical whitepaper presents and discusses the concept of “Connectivity as Code”, a complementary concept to “Infrastructure as Code” (IaC), and we will explain how it can be incorporated into the DevOps lifecycle for a more agile application delivery. We will also describe how empowering the developer to define the application’s connectivity requirements will bridge the gap between developers and network security, and help to automate the application delivery process end-to-end. The solution presented in this whitepaper seamlessly weaves network connectivity into the DevOps methodology, while ensuring continuous compliance, so that automation does not compromise security.”

AlgoSec recently surveyed 450 C-level executives and senior security and network professionals to investigate the hybrid cloud security strategies of their organizations. The survey revealed that many organizations are embracing hybrid cloud as part of their enterprise infrastructure, and plan to increase their adoption of cloud platforms over the next three years. However, the majority of enterprises do have some serious security concerns and encounter significant challenges when managing security across hybrid environments, both during and after cloud migrations.