AHEAD Launches Shift-Left Development Pipeline Powered by Harness and Wiz

CHICAGO, November 19, 2024 - AHEAD, a leading provider of enterprise cloud and digital infrastructure solutions, has unveiled a new security pipeline, leveraging the recent integration between Wiz and Harness. AHEAD's pipeline solves the most significant challenges of shift-left development to reduce risk, accelerate time-to-market and improve operational efficiency.

To strengthen security in new deployments, development teams are taking a shift-left approach by integrating security testing and controls earlier in the development lifecycle. Shifting left helps organizations improve security, find vulnerabilities, and reduce risk. This approach is particularly beneficial in AI development, as it enables early improvements in data quality to ensure that the foundation for AI-model training is robust from the beginning. Additionally, it supports earlier model testing and validation to identify issues sooner while accelerating iterative improvements.

Harness is a leading AI-native software delivery platform used by enterprise organizations to modernize DevOps, measure and improve the developer experience, securely deliver software, and optimize cloud spend.

Wiz is a cloud security platform that succeeds in providing visibility, mitigation techniques, and protection from real threats to your cloud infrastructure.

By combining Harness's AI-native software delivery templates with Wiz's comprehensive security scanning capabilities, AHEAD is helping enterprises strengthen their security posture while maintaining fast production timelines.

By leveraging Harness to create reusable templates, developers can simplify complex workflows and easily replicate pipelines across multiple teams or environments, all of which ensures consistency and reduces the potential for errors. By layering Wiz's advanced scanning capabilities-covering Infrastructure as Code (IaC), container images, and repositories-on top of these templatized components, AHEAD enables developers to scale operations while maintaining strong security at every stage of the development lifecycle.

This new security pipeline, combining the best of both platforms, empowers organizations to proactively identify and address security risks, providing accurate, real-time detection of vulnerabilities that could impact their security and compliance posture. With Harness and Wiz, organizations not only achieve operational scalability but also reinforce a robust, end-to-end security framework that protects against emerging threats.

"Shifting left is key to building quality right from the start. By bringing testing, security, and validation into the early stages, AHEAD's integration cuts risks, speeds delivery, and creates stronger products - all while reducing costs and boosting team collaboration," said Nick Colyer, Vice President of Digital Engineering at AHEAD. "By pairing Harness and Wiz, enterprises can easily integrate these practices and unlock a whole suite of powerful features."

"If shift-left security is to keep pace with software development, the ability to easily operationalize SCA, container, secret detection, and Infrastructure as Code scanners and equip developers to immediately act on their output is critical." says Sid Choudhury, Senior Vice President of Product and General Manager at Harness. "To that end, we built Harness Security Testing Orchestration with the developer-centric security workflows that eliminate toil, along with the flexibility to effortlessly integrate industry-leading security scanners, such as Wiz."

"Integrating Harness and Wiz seamlessly creates end-to-end security for CI/CD pipelines while enhancing visibility into development," said Tom Henderson, Vice President of Worldwide Channels and Alliances at Wiz. "By combining AHEAD's platform engineering services with Harness and Wiz's technical excellence, we empower clients to boost their efficiency and strengthen overall security."

Through AHEAD's joint solution built with Harness and Wiz, organizations now have the ability to harden applications against known vulnerabilities at speed, optimize availability and reliability, and establish greater trust with their clients.

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