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DEVOPS SECURITY CHALLENGES AND HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM

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DevOps is an increasingly popular approach to software development that, as the name suggests, melds together the previously separate roles of software development and IT operations. DevOps teams collaborate to continuously build, release, and manage software in faster and more frequent cycles. While many organizations have embraced this integrated approach for development and operations, they are often slow to include security within this framework.

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