DevSecOps metrics: Learning from academics and professionals

• Autor(a) principal: Prates, Luís Filipe Bispo
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/20207
• topic: DevOps; DevSecOps; DevSecOps metrics; SecDevOps; Design science research; Métricas DevSecOps; Ciência de design; Desenvolvimento de software; Segurança informática; Proteção dos dados

DevSecOps is an emerging paradigm that breaks the Security team silo into the DevOps team, adding security practices to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDL) from inception. Security practices, in SDL, are important to avoid data breaches, guarantee compliance with the law and for organizations, it is an obligation to protect customer data. This study aims to identify metrics teams can use to measure the effectiveness of DevSecOps implementation inside organizations. To that end, this study was conducted using a Design Science Research (DSR) as its research methodology, with the intent of producing an artefact containing the most relevant DevSecOps metrics. A total of nine DevSecOps metrics purposed by professionals and academics were identified and listed on the artefact produced by this study. Interviews were conducted with DevSecOps professionals as a method of evaluating if the identified metrics were useful. Through the interviews, it was possible to identify the metrics that are being used by professionals and which are the most useful. Interviewees purposed three additional metrics. This study identifies a total of twelve metrics that can be used to measure effectiveness in DevSecOps.