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DevOps May Be Cause of and Solution to Open Source Component Chaos
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4/16/2018 | 4:42:49 PM
DevOps: cause and cure
Thanks Ericka.  The subject matter crosses most data/information security concern boundaries; and a true solution will require coordinated effort from each. 

I doubt if that can happen unless it's orchestrated, from the top, by each organization's Information System architects.  The raison d' etre for IS is informing knowledge workers.  That entails not only supplying information, but regulating it's dissemination.  It is only at the IS level (through the application of business rules, instantiated at the transactional data level), that policies can be enforced - otherwise, they are just suggestions. 


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