One of the biggest attractions for automating application operations is that automation tools will always be able to respond faster than a human intervening manually. This is true for tasks like scaling and failing over — and it’s also the case with responding to security vulnerabilities.  “At the end of the day, the risk that many organizations face in their infrastructure and in their applications is ‘what if there’s a security vulnerability exploited before I have time to react,’” said Aner Mazur, chief product officer at open source security company Snyk.

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