Cracking the code to overcome developer and security team differences

The article discusses the challenges faced by development (Dev) and security (Sec) teams due to their contrasting priorities and expectations. It highlights that while Sec teams focus on data protection and preventing breaches, Dev teams prioritize speed, innovation, meeting marketplace demands, and improving user experience. This often leads to conflicts resulting in software vulnerabilities, slowed development, misaligned toolchains, and corrosive cross-team communication. The article suggests the implementation of a consolidated internal development platform (IDP) as a solution to bridge this gap through tooling and automation. It emphasizes the need for a platform team to standardize tooling platforms and workflows across an organization, integrating security best practices into developer workflows. The article also mentions HashiCorp's Infrastructure Cloud as a consolidated solution that can help reduce Dev and Sec team stress, improve efficiency, and implement security best practices at all layers of cloud software development by building an end-to-end cloud IDP.