Research says 94% from CIOs indicates that extending a DevSecOps culture to more teams is the best way to accelerate digital transformation and drive faster, more secure solutions
Dynatrace, the specialist in Software Intelligence, announces the results of its latest independent global survey of 1,300 CIOs (Chief Information Officer) and senior DevOps managers in large organizations. Among the discoveries, we highlight the growing difficulty for teams to maintain reliability and security in the software development process, due to the high demand for continuous release cycles and the complexity of native environments in the Cloud, which increase the risks that defects and undetected vulnerabilities can escape into production.
CIOs and DevOps leaders are looking at DevSecOps processes, the convergence of observability and security, and the increased use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation to balance accelerated innovation with reliability and security. The 2023 Global CIO Survey Companion Report, “Security Observability and Convergence: Enabling Faster, Secure Innovation in the Cloud,” is available in English. on here.
The research reveals the following:
– 90% of organizations say digital transformation has accelerated in the past 12 months.
– 78% of organizations deploy software updates every 12 hours or less, and 54% say they do so at least once every two hours.
– DevOps teams spend nearly a third (31%) of their time on manual tasks that involve detecting code quality issues and vulnerabilities, impacting time dedicated to innovation.
– 55% of organizations are forced to make compromises between quality, security and user experience to meet the need for rapid transformation.
– 88% of CIOs say the convergence of observability and security practices will be critical to building a DevSecOps culture, and 90% say increasing the use of AIOps will be key to scaling these practices.
“It's difficult for teams to accelerate the pace of innovation while maintaining the highest standards of quality and safety,” says Bernd Greifeneder, Founder and CTO of Dynatrace. “More frequent software deployments, combined with complex cloud architectures, make it easier for bugs and vulnerabilities to escape into production, where they affect the customer experience and create risk. There simply isn't enough time in the day for teams to test code as thoroughly as there was when working with just a single monthly deployment, but there's no room for error in today's always-on, ultra-competitive economy. Something needs to change.”
Additional research findings include:
– Organizations plan to increase spend on automation of development, security and operations by 35% through 2024, as they invest more in continuous software quality (54%) and security (49%) testing in production, automatic vulnerability detection and blocking (41%) and release validation automation (35%).
– 70% of CIOs say they need to improve their confidence in the accuracy of AI decisions before automating the CI/CD pipeline.
-94% of CIOs say extending a DevSecOps culture to more teams is critical to accelerating digital transformation and driving faster, more secure software releases.
“Organizations know that manual approaches don't scale,” Greifeneder points out. “Teams can't waste time prioritizing and troubleshooting in war rooms. They need to work together to drive faster, safer innovation. Automation and modern delivery practices like DevSecOps are essential for this, but teams need to trust that their AI is drawing the right conclusions. To achieve this, organizations need a unified platform that has the ability to converge observability and security data to eliminate silos between teams. By gathering their data and retaining its context, DevOps and security teams can uncover insights they need through Causal Artificial Intelligence. This allows them to leverage intelligent automation to rapidly deliver secure, high-performance applications that delight their users.”
The report is based on a global survey of 1,300 CIOs and senior IT professionals involved in managing DevOps at large companies with more than 1,000 employees, conducted by Coleman Parkes and commissioned by Dynatrace. The sample included 200 respondents in the US, 100 in Latin America, 600 in Europe, 150 in the Middle East and 250 in Asia Pacific.
