Five ways to develop better, safer apps

The cloud has emerged as a major battleground for cyberattacks — and the cost of a breach has never been higher. According to IBM, the average cost of a breach was $4.5 million, and the CrowdStrike 2023 Global Threat Report found that there was a 95% increase in cloud exploits in 2022, with a three-fold increase in cases involving cloud-conscious threat actors.

This acceleration of cloud-focused threat activity and its effects has made security an important priority across organizations – especially DevOps teams.

While security teams are accountable for protecting against risks, they cannot take on the risk all by themselves. Each team must try to explain the importance of their role in the development lifecycle to the other teams in the pipeline. With the growth of cloud-native applications and the demand for faster application delivery or continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), the use of containers has increased. As businesses adopt containerized and serverless technologies and cloud-based services, more complex security issues arise.