Название: Strategic Approaches to Digital Platform Security Assurance
Автор: Yuri Bobbert, Maria Chtepen
Издательство: IGI Global
Год: 2021
Страниц: 394
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 23.0 MB

Nowadays it is impossible to imagine a business without technology as most industries are becoming "smarter" and more tech-driven, ranging from small individual tech initiatives to complete business models with intertwined supply chains and "platform"-based business models. New ways of working, such as Agile and DevOps, have been introduced, leading to new risks. These risks come in the form of new challenges for teams working together in a distributed manner, privacy concerns, human autonomy, and cybersecurity concerns. Technology is now integrated into the business discipline and is here to stay leading to the need for a thorough understanding of how to address these risks and all the potential problems that could arise. With the advent of organized crime, such as hacks and denial-of-service attacks, all kinds of malicious actors are infiltrating the digital society in new and unique ways.

Systems with poor design, implementation, and configurations are easily taken advantage of. When it comes to integrating business and technology, there needs to be approaches for assuring security against risks that can threaten both businesses and their digital platforms. Strategic Approaches to Digital Platform Security Assurance offers comprehensive design science research approaches to extensively examine risks in digital platforms and offer pragmatic solutions to these concerns and challenges. This book addresses significant problems when transforming an organization embracing API-based platform models, the use of DevOps teams, and issues in technological architectures. Each section will examine the status quo for business technologies, the current challenges, and core success factors and approaches that have been used. This book is ideal for security analysts, software engineers, computer engineers, executives, managers, IT consultants, business professionals, researchers, academicians, and students who want to gain insight and deeper knowledge of security in digital platforms and gain insight into the most important success factors and approaches utilized by businesses.

Topics Covered:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Agile Methodologies
Business Platform Models
Business Technologies
Design Science
DevOps
Digital Platforms
Government Business Models
Risk Analysis
Security and Privacy
Security Compliance

Chapter 1: Problems in the Area of Business Platform Models

Chapter 2: Research Findings in the Domain of Business Platform Models

Chapter 3: Findings and Core Practices in the Domain of Business Platform Models

Chapter 4: Problems in the Area of Agile Methodologies
When establishing these platforms, this happens more and more in collaboration with multiple teams producing products. Agile has become the fastest growing IT development methodology, with most organizations doing agile implementations, as stated in Harvard Business Review.

Chapter 5: Research Findings in the Domain of Agile Methodologies
Further on, the author explores all factors and characteristics associated with distributed agile software development with the literature's help. It intended to answer the risks and impact of distributed agile software development on team performance, which has a varying effect on organizations.

Chapter 6: Findings and Core Practices in the Domain of Agile Methodologies
The chapter then concludes by drawing core strategic practices and approaches to organizations having similar distributed agile software development models.

Chapter 7: Problems of CI/CD and DevOps on Security Compliance
With the increasing importance of software development and IT systems for realizing governments and enterprises' goals, the need for specific governance between business and IT organizations has come to the forefront. In this chapter, the authors define the main problems when working on technology products in DevOps Teams and on CI/CD pipelines about security and risk management.

Chapter 8: Research Findings in the Domain of CI/CD and DevOps on Security Compliance
It furthermore studies the mapping of governance and security control objectives impacted by DevOps to the corresponding DevOps control objectives. These DevOps objectives introduce either an opportunity or a risk for achieving the security & governance control objectives.

Chapter 9: Findings and Core Practices in the Domain of CI/CD and DevOps on Security Compliance

Chapter 10: Challenges and Opportunities for Security Assurance in DevOps

Chapter 11: Research Findings in the Domain of Security Assurance in DevOps

Chapter 12: Findings and Core Practices in the Domain of Security Assurance in DevOps