Shift Down Security: A New Paradigm for Platform Engineering Success
Learn how platform teams are embedding security into internal developer platforms
Today’s dynamic cloud landscape demands continuous innovation while upholding robust security practices. This whitepaper explores how adopting Shift-Down security practices, coupled with Policy as Code (PaC), can empower cloud-native organizations to achieve these goals. By embedding security controls into the foundational cloud platforms and development workflows, the Shift-Down approach enhances proactive risk mitigation and supports secure innovation.
View the Shift Down Security whitepaper and gain insights on:
- Understanding shift left and shift down security
- Implementing shift down security
- Case study of a successful implementation of shift down security
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What can Nirmata do for you?
With today’s increasing cloud security threats, simply detecting intrusions is no longer enough – the damage may already be done. That’s why Nirmata doesn’t just detect threats, it prevents them by eliminating security and compliance misconfigurations across Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud services.
Policy-Driven Security
Enforce Kubernetes best practices using policy-as-code to ensure cloud-native applications and infrastructure are free from misconfigurations.
Continuous Compliance
Deploy security policies into DevOps pipelines to ensure that applications and infrastructure maintain compliance throughout their life cycles.
Enhanced Insights
Integrate DevOps tools such as Git, Slack, and Jira to promote continuous compliance, early issue spotting, and cleaner production environments.
Want to fast-track security and compliance in your Kubernetes environment? Use policy-as-code for Shift Down Security success.
Nirmata Overview
Jim Bugwadia has 20+ years experience building and leading effective teams and has created software that powers communications systems around the world.
Jim was among the original architects and business leaders within Cisco’s cloud automation practice, where he helped grow revenues to over $250M. During Jim’s tenure, IDC recognized the practice as #1 in global cloud services.
Jim’s passion is to simplify the use of complex systems by providing well designed products that drive mass adoption of new technologies. As software has become mission critical to all businesses, Jim and his co-founders started Nirmata to help enterprises automate the delivery and management of applications.
Over the course of his career, Jim has logged over $1.3B in revenue, 6 patent filings, 8 major product launches, and 29 years experience coding.
Jim holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Chicago State University and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.