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Gartner Report: DevOps Security Champions Help Organizations Gain Leverage Without Training Everyone

In order to promote the mission of DevSecOps, security leaders need to get developers to buy into security programs and implement best practices. As part of an AppSec strategy, you can level up developer security skills with “security champions.” Security champions are developers who act as the security conscience of their teams, and help other developers improve their skills through code reviews and other methods. This Gartner research report explains how to build a security champions program to increase security awareness and secure coding skills.

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What will you learn?

In this report you will take away a number of recommendations including:


  • How to identify potential security champions across your development teams

  • How security champions can foster collaboration between InfoSec and development teams

  • How to build an ongoing support system for your security champions

  • How to encourage security champions through self-directed training, performance bonuses and other perks

DevOps Security Champions Help Organizations Gain Leverage Without Training Everyone, 20 June 2017, Mark Horvath | Joanna G. Huisman