THE INTERSECTION OF DEVSECOPS AND GDPR Data Security has been in the news of late, for all the wrong reasons. With huge amounts of personal data floating around with organizations, chances of use and misuse is huge. It’s no wonder that the European Union has passed the “General Data Protection Regulation” or GDPR to be effective from 25th May 2018. Since Businesses worldwide need and use personal data of its customers; Businesses are affected, wherever they might be because of the huge contribution of the EU to Global Business and because of the extra-territorial nature of the regulation. While many industries would be deeply impacted by GDPR, the focus in this note would be on one aspect related to Software Development.
So how does GDPR affect the Software Development Community? Software development has evolved as a profession from the early 1960’s. Software development practices have had multiple attributes, related to stability, speed of development, cost, security and usability amongst others. Read More