For the last eight years, I've been a CIO, but throughout my career, I've been on all sides of the seller-buyer relationship, from leading sales and sales engineering teams to holding a variety of commercial and operational leadership roles. I've had the experience of starting my own company back in the dot-com days, and I've been a top executive leader for a Global Fortune 500 company. Over my career, I have seen the industry transform and change. The rapid acceleration and adoption of software as a service and cloud computing, combined with product teams adopting agile principles and software development practices like DevOps, forced CIOs to rethink how they organize teams to deliver business value faster. Concerns about application security vulnerabilities and safeguarding sensitive, confidential data have caused product teams to adopt "security by design," instead of leaving security for the end of the release process, giving rise to DevSecOps.