Platform engineering is focused on building and managing the internal platforms that support software development and deployment, bridging the gap between developers, infrastructure, and operations. As organizations embrace platform engineering, integrating robust cybersecurity practices into this methodology becomes essential for minimizing vulnerabilities and ensuring the security of software applications.
Cybersecurity should be seamlessly embedded within the platform engineering lifecycle to enhance the DevSecOps approach, where security is treated as a continuous and collaborative part of the development pipeline. By adopting a security-first mindset, platform engineering can proactively identify and mitigate risks, automate security controls, and integrate security testing into the CI/CD pipeline. This approach fosters a culture where security is everyone’s responsibility, from development to operations.
Through secure coding practices, automated vulnerability scanning, and comprehensive monitoring, platform engineers can create resilient systems that reduce the attack surface. Integrating threat intelligence, policy enforcement, and incident response capabilities directly into the platform ensures rapid detection and response to security incidents.
Cybersecurity should be seamlessly embedded within the platform engineering lifecycle to enhance the DevSecOps approach, where security is treated as a continuous and collaborative part of the development pipeline. By adopting a security-first mindset, platform engineering can proactively identify and mitigate risks, automate security controls, and integrate security testing into the CI/CD pipeline. This approach fosters a culture where security is everyone’s responsibility, from development to operations.
Through secure coding practices, automated vulnerability scanning, and comprehensive monitoring, platform engineers can create resilient systems that reduce the attack surface. Integrating threat intelligence, policy enforcement, and incident response capabilities directly into the platform ensures rapid detection and response to security incidents.
Marco Bizzantino
Krateo Srl
Marco Bizzantino is the CIO/CISO at Kiratech, based in Verona, Italy.
Marco start as a linux system administrator, focusing on security issue, both server and network side, being interested on hardening, penetration test, security audit, firewall and cryptography.
Since 2002 he follows virtualization solutions, mainly with vmware and RHEL based hypervisor, working on several mission critical systems in the financial and medical industries.
Recently Marco is keeping his interest on log aggregation, analysis software and machine learning, to support searches, investigations, monitoring and give the real-time approach that a complex IT infrastracture demands.
Thanks to the DevOps culture Marco acquired strong skills on containers, CI/CD, DevSecOps, automation and anything related to the new processes the IT now require.
In the last years he's following anything related to the AI and how it can be a driver for a cultural and technical change.
Marco start as a linux system administrator, focusing on security issue, both server and network side, being interested on hardening, penetration test, security audit, firewall and cryptography.
Since 2002 he follows virtualization solutions, mainly with vmware and RHEL based hypervisor, working on several mission critical systems in the financial and medical industries.
Recently Marco is keeping his interest on log aggregation, analysis software and machine learning, to support searches, investigations, monitoring and give the real-time approach that a complex IT infrastracture demands.
Thanks to the DevOps culture Marco acquired strong skills on containers, CI/CD, DevSecOps, automation and anything related to the new processes the IT now require.
In the last years he's following anything related to the AI and how it can be a driver for a cultural and technical change.