As IT infrastructures have become more complex, certain specialist functions have developed their own niche requirements connected to but separate from mainstream IT operations. Prime examples would include development, security and network. Over the years, these niche requirements have become siloed and less efficient than they should be.
In more recent years there have been attempts to break down the silos to re-integrate the functions with mainstream IT operations — and the concepts of DevOps, NetOps and SecOps, and the more nuanced DevSecOps, have evolved.
