Security By Design: Why DevSecOps Is So Important “In a relatively short time, we’ve taken a system built to resist destruction by nuclear weapons and made it vulnerable to toasters.” Jeff Jarmoc’s sadly hilarious tweet about Internet security in the wake of the epic 2016 Dyn DDOS attack says a lot about the challenge facing every enterprise today. That is: Security doesn’t work if it is an afterthought or bolt on. That’s the central message of GigaOm VP of Research Jon Collins’ most recent report, “Key Criteria for Evaluating DevSecOps Tools.” As Collins notes, the increasing pace of development and innovation powered by DevOps processes has a drawback—it can crowd out the important discipline of securing code and assets.