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We have several reasonably well functioning small software development teams working on different areas of the business. Each team has its own lead and roughly 8 other developers on it. The teams have no overarching boss except for the CEO, who is not involved in the day to day development activities at all.
These teams work together somewhat frequently but don't talk to each other as much as we'd like. They tend to all have slightly different cultures, and slightly different practices when it comes to various core software development activities like documentation, testing, code review etc.
These teams have a lot to learn from each other, as each has strengths and weaknesses in different areas, but I am unsure of the best way to identify what each does best and have everyone follow that.
So I would suggest something different here coming from Fractal. Make one of the engineers in each team a champion of cross-functional collaboration and facilitate meetings with them to exchange knowledge in the topics that you want to promote. That way you still let them evaluate which changes in the process are the best for their team.
Hello Carthage. While agile does encourage teams to adapt working practices I can see the advantage of having just enough consistency to make collaboration easier. It also makes it easier for people to understand what everyone else is doing and for people to move between teams.
The efficiency brought by AI-Guided Remediation allows developers to focus on the task at hand. Resolving the issue quickly and getting back to delivering new features rather than wasting time deciphering the complexities of the remediation process.
One of the key challenges faced by organizations adopting DevSecOps is the ongoing lack of collaboration between development and security teams. Studies have shown that building a culture of shared ownership between these teams is essential for successful DevSecOps implementation.
AI-Guided Remediation acts as a bridge, connecting the worlds of development and security. Developers, who may not be security experts, receive prescriptive contextual guidance that empowers them to remediate quickly and efficiently. This not only improves the security posture of the organization but also fosters a collaborative spirit between developers and security experts.
AI-Guided Remediation is part of the SaaS edition of the Aqua Cloud Security Platform. As a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP), Aqua provides developers and security teams with consistent and comprehensive security information across various cloud environments and workload types.
Aqua Security's AI-Guided Remediation empowers security teams to expedite the resolution of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, while also fostering collaboration between developers and security experts. By providing step-by-step instructions on how to fix issues, this innovative capability dramatically reduces the mean time to remediation (MTTR) for security teams and minimizes risk exposure.
In a world where cyber threats are evolving at an unprecedented pace, Aqua Security continues to innovate and provide cutting-edge solutions to ensure a more resilient and secure ecosystem for organizations.
Unify SDK is a software framework that simplifies the developer experience, removing difficult parts of network control and network management as it relates to gateway and hub development in IoT applications. It can also provide Matter bridge functionality to other protocols that do not natively run matter.
Today, we announced the preview release of Amazon CodeCatalyst. A unified software development and delivery service, Amazon CodeCatalyst enables software development teams to quickly and easily plan, develop, collaborate on, build, and deliver applications on AWS, reducing friction throughout the development lifecycle.
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Blueprints to scaffold not just application code but also shared project resources supporting the development and deployment of applications, issue tracking, invite-by-email collaboration, automated workflows, and more are all available today in the newly released preview of Amazon CodeCatalyst to help accelerate your cloud development and delivery efforts. Learn more in the Amazon CodeCatalyst User Guide. And, as I mentioned earlier, additional blogs posts and other supporting content are planned by the team to dive into the range of features in more detail, so be sure to look out for them!
Developer console: We have designed Circuit as an open collaboration platform, rather than a closed product. As a member of our developer community, you can integrate business workflows and applications with Circuit using our API and SDKs. With the current release, you can manage your custom applications generate API/SDK and bots application keys directly in the administration console. This feature is available in Circuit Labs.
Remediation workflows for security issues are broken. Findings are generated from many different security scanning tools. These either get turned into lots of individual tickets with partial context, or perhaps the security team spends time manually correlating those findings and then submitting tickets that quickly get outdated as new information or metadata comes in. Developers are flooded with tickets that lack proper context and are hampered with no way to easily collaborate with the security teams - as a result, SLAs get missed or issues get ignored.
Security teams recognize this problem, and most scanning tools are able to create tickets in developer systems like Jira directly. This helps, but is not sufficient. What ends up happening when several security tools are creating tickets in Jira is two-fold:
Today, with our new Jira Application, we are solving the problem of uneven and delayed flows of information between security and development teams. The Jira Application for ArmorCode moves the connection between security and development remediation workflows forward with real-time, dynamic connectivity between ArmorCode and Jira. Whenever an artifact is changed in ArmorCode (e.g. changing the status or severity of a Finding, updating metadata, adding new Finding to a ticket, etc), it's automatically and dynamically displayed in Jira at the ticket level. This keeps developers in Jira and ensures that they have the latest and most complete information for a security issue in one easy to understand place.
ArmorCode gives developers the summary of an issue and all the Findings across your scanning tools that relate to it. Developers can see a list of everything they need to address, then get more info in the detailed description to determine their next action. For any ArmorCode Finding that makes up a ticket, the original finding from the source tool is linked. If the next step is to resolve the Finding, they can jump to the issue in the source scanning tool with one click for the full technical details.
Strong collaboration requires communication, as well as checks and balances. ArmorCode strengthens collaboration through request, proposal, and approval workflows in the Jira application. For example, a developer can propose that a Finding they get in a ticket is a false positive from within Jira. That proposal then dynamically shows up in ArmorCode, where security can review and approve. Each team stays in their preferred workflow, but are able to collaborate effectively and in real-time.
Security teams can manually create tickets, or automate ticket creation through Runbooks, and with the Jira Application, new tickets will appear in Jira in real time, and any changes made in ArmorCode to the ticket will as well. Developers can see a summary of details for any of the related Findings that make up the ticket, the status of the ticket, the type of scan, and any SLA due dates. To take action, developers can propose updates (e.g. change the severity, mark as a false positive, accept risk, etc) individually or in bulk, all within Jira. These updates then show up immediately in ArmorCode, where security teams can respond.
Most developers' day-to-day is inefficient primarily because of the dozens of fragmented services and tools they use to build, run and scale applications. The inefficiency inadvertently leads to lost productivity. For small companies, the fragmented developer experiences might be tolerable, but the need to unify them grows as the business grows.
Led by Brian Leathem, developers at Netflix, which had adopted a microservices architecture early on, found that this approach was becoming too fragmented as the platform tooling grew. They needed to unify developer experiences across the company's Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Brian Leathem shared these insights during PlatformCon 2022.
To unify developer experiences across Netflix's SDLC, the Platform Experiences and Design (PXD) team at Netflix decided to build a federated platform console. The Netflix federated platform console is a one-stop shop for all the tools engineers need to develop and deploy software at scale. It consolidates the dozens of services and tools developers use into a single, easy-to-use interface.
There are too many tools that developers have to work with daily, making it challenging to develop, deliver, and operate services and software. For instance, it is not unusual for a developer to use Bitbucket to review poll requests, Spinnaker to check on their deployment pipelines, Jenkins to check on their build failures, and internal alerting metric tools to check their operational status, etc., throughout the SDLC. In addition, they will likely need to repeat these workflows multiple times.
Product service owners at Netflix have created tools and documentation for developers, but many developers don't know the tools exist. Any developer will not immediately know the many tools and documentation their teams are using and might find themselves relying on tribal knowledge passed along to new team members. On the other hand, a developer that has been around longer might not know about new tools that have been added to improve their daily workflows.
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