The IT infrastructure landscape has experienced exponential changes throughout the past decade. Various digital transformation including the adoption of agile cloud computing platforms shared storage and data, and dynamic applications have brought vast growth to organizations, however, these applications could have traded off their robust security and compliance while storming ahead of speed, scale and functionality.

DevOps is then introduced to bring development, operations and security under the same umbrella for the whole software development lifecycle- making security an equal consideration beside development and operations.