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Readiness Assessment

Discover Areas of Improvement in your DevOps and Cybersecurity Strategy

This assessment is designed to assess your development operations and highlight areas of improvement in your DevOps strategy, specifically with regards to:

Cybersecurity Posture
Development Methodology

Logging
Code Updates
Source Control

CI/CD
Monitoring Procedures
Automation

At the end of the assessment, you'll receive a score assessing your DevOps and Cybersecurity readiness along with a list of industry-standard Best Practices to help you improve.

1. Assessment Questions

2. Contact information

3. Results

Do you use automated testing?

All the time
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never

Do you use a modern source code repository (git, mercurial, etc)?

All the time
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never

What does your release schedule look like?

We deploy many versions of our application per day into production
We deploy to production at least once per day
We deploy weekly or every 2-3 weeks
Our releases take a month or longer

What does your application logging strategy look like?

We proactively consider logging requirements for each application
We have some logging but haven't really considered the strategy around it
We don't really know what we are logging
Whatever the defaults are

Do you monitor the performance and uptime of your applications?

We are able to see how each of our applications perform in real time, we are alerted in real time of incidents/outages
We monitor some of our applications over time
We monitor very few of our applications
We have no monitoring tools in place

How does code make it to production?

We have an advanced CI/CD pipeline which includes extensive testing
We trigger builds on every deploy but the rest of the process is relatively manual
We have a process for deployments that we follow when scheduled
We are still figuring out how to do deployments consistently

What level of passive cybersecurity defense to you employ?

We have host based intrusion detection, vulnerability scanning, and pentesting performed regularly
We have basic vulnerability scanning and other tooling, we consider security in our work
We occasionally consider security in our work
We don't actively mention security in our solutions

What best describes your team's development methodology?

We use Agile/Xtreme Programming or similar and include Ops/Devops, Developers, and Security folks in our sprints
We use Agile/XP or similar and include Developers and Ops/DevOps folks in our sprints
We use Agile/XP and include only developers in our sprints
We use waterfall or some other non Agile/XP process

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