As per IDC’s 2023 DevOps and Modern App Delivery survey, meeting regulatory compliance and ensuring the code is robust are among the biggest pain points organisations face in modern software delivery. Deep technical and organizational complexity in the IT landscape and IT operations makes enforcing security, and compliance very challenging.
While the volume of software dependencies and delivery processes in the average application environment is overwhelming. Today, 64% of organizations in the UK don’t have well-structured processes in place to govern their software delivery lifecycle and supply chain. This creates difficulties in both software delivery and audit reporting. Application development, platform engineering, security, and compliance teams struggle to keep up with the myriad of moving parts, and collaborate and coordinate with each other. Ensuring processes and updates along the software supply chain are vetted, approved, and recorded for auditing is another big challenge.
As more organisations realize the level of complexity in software delivery and the security and compliance exposure risks they are facing increase, confidence in software delivery capabilities is decreasing. As per IDC’s research, in 2023 only 11% of organizations in Europe are completely confident in their overall application security posture from 16% two years ago. Furthermore, for the average organization in Europe, less than a fifth of their application portfolio is being delivered using DevSecOps methodologies.
To advance software delivery agility, organisations will need to reconsider their current approach and strategy to defining and enforcing compliance and security policies, and drive a software-led approach to standardizing, automating and managing application delivery.
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