Modernizing the high-security environment for the application development in DevOps based environment
INTRODUCTION:
Technology is evolving every day, and it is essential to keep pace with the technological advances to deliver sustainable performance. On that note, modernization of applications is necessary. Depending upon the business requirements and the flexibility of existing business and application model, modernization techniques can be selected to be applied to our application. This will not only help keeping pace with the technological advancements, but also will help in seamless experience to customers.
MODERNIZATION PROCESS
Modernization is the process of taking existing applications and updating their infrastructure, architecture, and features with newer approaches. The purpose of this is to make the applications suitable for latest processes like Agile and DevOps, and to upgrade and update the existing system.
Application modernization is the first step to bring automation into current system and business. With the advancement of technology and increased automation, modernization can help maintain and organize the applications easily and seamlessly.
HIGH-SECURITY ENVIRONMENT
High-security applications are where security is top priority. And unauthorized access can cause potential harm to both business and clients. Data protection is one of the most important mandates in any application. From the business standpoint, that makes it necessary that the security is maintained, and based on this, the modernization techniques need to be chosen for implementing in the application.
DEVOPS
DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices and tools which combines both Development and Operations part of the application. This ensures that the application is delivered efficiently and speedily. DevOps helps automate several functions which previously needed doing manually. Continuous integration and continuous delivery are the core of DevOps model. It helps combining the activities of team under single automated model which is more reliable and highly scalable.
CHALLENGES
While modernizing current application there could be challenges which needs to be addressed before moving forward with the process itself.
- Existing system might lack security and unsupported versions of tools and obsolete methods which could be risky and can cause security issues.
- Single point of failure, where single functionality can cause failure of the whole system
- Higher Dependency
- Lack of Flexibility, which can cause more downtime for the application
SECURITY PRACTICES
DevOps as a process can help us ensure security of the application through several practices. Below are the few practices for consideration.
- Collaboration:
In the form of security policy update, by collaborating with client and business team, updated mandates and measures can be established before moving ahead with modernization.
- Management:
To ensure that application, resources, and processes are managed reliably, strategy must be established beforehand and communicated clearly to all the stakeholders.
- Continuous Monitoring:
To ensure that the processes are monitored and alerted at the earliest, it is important to identify the monitoring needs and places where they must be established.
MODERNIZATION PLANS
Once the requirements are lined out, the plan for modernizing process needs to be selected which meets all the requirements. Several vendors are providing tools and techniques for achieving the same. Below is an example:
It is essential to choose the process which ensure both security and modernization requirements of the application. And the compatibility between the existing application and new tools needs to be maintained.
CONCLUSION
Zero-trust cybersecurity principle helps provide the best security practices in our existing system. And modernizing in high-security environment can be done in easy manner with the help of DevOps practice.
When Security is combined with DevOps practice, it is also called as DevSecOps. For maintaining reliability in applications throughout the modernization process it is required that all the process established in the requirement phase are maintained.
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