Gartner defines the DevOps continuous compliance automation market as tools that organizations use to assess and report against an increasingly large number of contractual obligations and regulatory regimes. These regimes are expanding beyond the traditional regulations involving health privacy (HIPAA) and personal privacy (GDPR) to include cybersecurity (NIST 800-218) and government (FedRAMP, DORA [EU]) mandates. These tools allow automated enforcement, assessment of security and compliance policies as part of application delivery workflows, and for the efficient generation of audit reports and publishing them to audit consumers. Platform and product engineering teams can use the tools to report on and meet their organization’s control requirements.
IT Security refers to products and services that protect digital systems and data from cyber threats and unauthorized access. This category includes markets that focus on network security, identity management, data protection, and cloud security, enabling organizations to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and operate securely in a digital world.