Dear Auditor

DevOps Community to Security with Love

As the DevOps community has been rapidly growing, delivering value faster and with better quality to meet customers demands, they forgot one thing: bringing security along for the ride.

This "love letter" to security is one step to rectifying that oversight, with clear commitments and a Risk Control Matrix to collaborate on risk mitigation into the future.

What's inside

  • Debunks Myth — This paper debunks the myth that DevOps and audit are counterintuitive.
  • Expert Authors — This paper is written by experienced practitioners in the DevOps and information security and audit sectors.
  • Risk Control Matrix — Provides clear guidance in the form of a risk controls matrix.
  • All Levels — Change Agents can come from anywhere on the org chart. This paper directly provides guidance on how to lead change no matter your role or title.
Publication Date
2018
Pages
10
Topics
Audit & Security
Formats
epub · pdf
License
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

About the authors

3 authors
Ben GrinnellBoard Member Capabilities and AI, Newton

Ben Grinnell is Managing Director and Global Lead of the Technology and Digital Service Line at North Highland, where he has spent over twenty years specializing in digital transformation for large organizations across public and private sectors. With extensive experience in next-generation IT, DevOps, Agile, and Lean methodologies, Grinnell has led major technology initiatives spanning government, health, education, and transport industries. He previously served as interim IT Director at the UK Border Agency, where he built internal IT capabilities and restructured major outsourced contracts. Grinnell holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computing from Loughborough University, completed PhD-level research in predictive control algorithms, and currently serves as a Non-Executive Director at Decentenergy.io.

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James WickettCEO & Co-Founder, DryRun Security
Jennifer BradyRisk Management, Data Governance and Internal Audit Leader