CircleCI Intros Privacy Enhancements
February 24, 2021
CircleCI
introduced new platform updates to increase the control, protection, privacy,
and confidence of today’s engineering teams.
Business leaders are concerned with the growth of remote-only and its impact on
security. In fact, research shows 28 percent of leaders in 2020 were anticipated
to prioritize improving application security capabilities and services, and 21
percent planned to prioritize building security into software development
processes.
This prioritization has only increased in 2021, especially as remote-only
continues to grow.
“As cloud adoption increases and security concerns grow, we believe that teams
shouldn’t have to choose between speed or security. We empower them to have both
by providing ways to create and manage reusable components, patterns, and
processes,” said Jim Rose, CircleCI CEO. “CircleCI’s latest privacy tools will
provide users with an efficient way to share their code and intellectual
property across teams, while reducing the risk of revealing secrets and
minimizing surface area for attack from bad actors.”
CircleCI orbs help developers automate repeated processes with reusable packages
of YAML configuration. These open-source config packages speed up project setup
for users and have integrations for a variety of use-cases, from vulnerability
scanning to test coverage of applications.
To further assist teams with their delivery to production, CircleCI now provides
developers with the ability to create private orbs, allowing teams to share
configuration exclusively within their organization. All available private orbs
will be easily accessible for developers across the same organization via
CircleCI’s command-line interface (CLI).
Private orbs provide increased privacy, efficiency, and collaboration across
teams. This is especially useful for teams working in healthcare, finance, and
other industries with high governance and compliance standards. Learn more about
private orbs from CircleCI here.
CircleCI also helps users ensure their pipelines are secure via added product
security features including: environment variables, multiple contexts, and admin
controls.
As CircleCI concludes their FY’21, they reflect on a few notable
accomplishments including:
Major product additions including the CircleCI Insights dashboard and
CircleCI runner, along with added support for Arm, all to further automate the
build, test, and release processes so engineering teams can ship software faster
and more securely.
Educational resources for engineering teams to increase productivity including The 2020 State of Software Delivery, which details the first-ever benchmarks for high-performing CI/CD, and the CircleCI Developer Hub, an all-in-one CI/CD resource for developers containing an array of efficiency and best-in-class CI/CD tools.
The
addition of 210 new employees globally, doubling their product and engineering
organizations.
New customers NBC Universal, Citigroup, and Unilever, and partners HashiCorp and Instana.
Established partnerships with global accelerators such as AWS Activate, Techstars, and 500 Startups.
Features in Forbes “tech firms to watch” lists and Built In “best places to work” lists.
Winning a 2021 DEVIES Award for ‘Best Innovation in Development Platforms’ category.
Recognition from peers and industry leaders as ‘Best CI/CD Tool’ in annual DevOps Dozen awards. The DevOps Dozen Awards recognize the best of the best in the maturing DevOps space, and this year’s winners have demonstrated exceptional leadership and support to the community through the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It is quite an accomplishment to be a DevOps Dozen honoree,” said Alan Shimel, CEO of MediaOps. “The standard of excellence required to receive this award is reserved for only the most distinguished members of the community—the top leaders, innovators and pioneers that are driving positive change in the world of DevOps.”
