The state of security in an organization can be related directly to how often the security engineers do manual work. It is estimated that more than 70 percent of security incidents are caused due to human error.
Although expenditure on security of organizations has been increasing tremendously, these expenditures can be useless if the system administrator still adds a 0.0.0.0/0 rule in your firewall or forgets to update a high-risk vulnerability in your server.
This is one of the reasons why security automation is one of the key aspects of enterprises that follow a smart way of working.
There are many new positions that have opened up in organizations, often called DevSecOps engineer, who are good in both security and automation.
In the fall of 2014, one of the high-risk vulnerabilities in OpenSSL called Heartbleed was announced. This led to system administrators...
