Cloud transformation is real. And it's spectacular. According to global business management and consulting firm McKinsey & Co., cloud transformation is the engine driving $1 trillion in economic activity for Fortune 500 companies alone. Innovations enabled by the cloud touch nearly every aspect of running a successful business, including the development of new products and services, access to new customers and markets, frictionless transactions, streamlined communication and collaboration, and access to talent without concern for traditional geographic barriers.
If you’re part of a software engineering team in digital health, medtech, medical devices, Software as a Medical Device (SaMD), etc. you have to comply with regulatory standards. And one of the biggest challenges engineering leads have in this sector is figuring out what they have to do to achieve software delivery compliance.
When you’re running a business, you have a bunch of different tools and processes that you need to manage in order to keep everything running smoothly. It’s kind of like having a bunch of different puzzle pieces that you need to fit together just right in order to create a complete picture. Now, let’s say you want to take your business to the next level – maybe you want to expand your customer base, improve your productivity, or streamline your operations.
Having a list of software that is allowed to be installed on a host is a strategy to prevent and fix security gaps and maintain compliance with operational guidelines. This zero-trust methodology ensures that only explicitly permitted applications are allowed to be present on a host unlike package block-listing which enumerates an explicit list of software that is not allowed to be present. In fact, with a software allow-list, you are essentially block-listing everything except the software you allow.
