In 2016, Cybersecurity professionals often complain about the number of disparate tools theyve deployed on their networks. An enterprise cybersecurity architecture based upon point tools cant scale and requires way too much operational overhead to maintain. An alternative integration path emerging more in line with DevOps than ERP is developing around cybersecurity software integration based upon things like RESTful APIs, Python scripting, and open standards. Software-defined security gains momentum as CISOs see opportunity to replace millions of dollars of hardware firewalls and gateways with low-cost software-defined alternatives.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3013830/when-apis-and-devops-meet-cybersecurity.html