Cloud complexity and manual processes contributing to security risks: survey

Thursday, 27 April 2023 09:14

By Stephen Withers

Dynatrace CTO Bernd Greifeneder

A survey conducted for software intelligence specialist Dynatrace shows CISOs find the growing complexity of hybrid and multicloud environments makes it increasingly difficult to keep software secure, and that the continuing use of manual processes helps vulnerabilities reach production environments.

Another finding of the 1,300-person (100 of them in Australia) survey is that the ongoing use of siloed tools for development, delivery, and security tasks is a brake on DevSecOps maturity.

Australia-specific findings include:

• 86 percent of CISOs said AI and automation are critical to the success of DevSecOps and overcoming resource challenges.

• 82 percent say the time it takes between the discovery of zero-day attacks and their ability to patch every instance is a significant challenge to minimising risk.

• 78 percent said they will see more vulnerability exploits if they can't make DevSecOps work more effectively; however, just 6 percent of organisations have a mature DevSecOps culture.

• 77 percent said the prevalence of team silos and point solutions throughout the DevSecOps lifecycle makes it easier for vulnerabilities to slip into production.

• 77 percent said it is a significant challenge to prioritise vulnerabilities because they lack information about the risk these vulnerabilities pose to their environment.

• 61 percent said vulnerability management is more difficult because the complexity of their software supply chain and cloud ecosystem has increased.

• Only 55 percent of CISOs are fully confident that the software delivered by development teams has been completely tested for vulnerabilities before going live in production environments.

• 56 percent of the vulnerability alerts that security scanners alone flag as "critical" are not important in production, wasting valuable development time chasing down false positives.

• On average, each member of development and application security teams spends 29 percent of their time (11 hours each week) on vulnerability management tasks that could be automated.

"Organisations are struggling to balance the need for faster innovation with the governance and security controls they established to keep their services and data safe," said Dynatrace CTO Bernd Greifeneder.

"The growing complexity of software supply chains and the cloud-native technology stacks that provide the foundation for digital innovation make it increasingly difficult to quickly identify, assess, and prioritise response efforts when new vulnerabilities emerge. These tasks have grown beyond human ability to manage. As such, development, security, and IT teams are finding that the vulnerability management controls they have in place are no longer adequate in today's dynamic digital world, exposing their businesses to unacceptable risk as a result."

He added "Despite a widespread understanding of the many benefits of DevSecOps, most organisations remain in the early stages of adopting these practices due to siloed data that lacks context and limits analytics.

"To overcome this, they should use solutions that converge observability and security data and are powered by trusted AI and intelligent automation. This is precisely what we architected the Dynatrace platform to do. As a result, our customers have reduced the time they spend identifying and prioritising vulnerabilities by up to 95 percent, helping them deliver faster, more secure innovation that keeps them at the forefront of their industries."

The convergence of observability and security is critical to realizing DevSecOps potential report is available for download here.

The survey was carried out by Coleman Parkes, with respondents were drawn from the US, the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Nordics, the Middle East, India, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Brazil and Mexico.

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Cloud complexity and manual processes contributing to security risks: survey