That was certainly what we heard from Indonesian technology unicorn Gojek when we spoke to them , with Chief Information Security Officer George Do clueing us in to what it takes to operate a super app with services ranging from ride-hailing to food delivery . “ Leverage the cloudnative tools that are available to you ,” said Do . “ Don ’ t try to boil the ocean and create your own tools , because some of those will already be at your fingertips . The second thing is finding a good balance between what we build internally , in-house or opensource , versus what we buy commercially . It ’ s important to pragmatically select a ‘ build versus buy ’ option based on the security use case and return on investment .”
The somewhat unsatisfying answer to the debate , then , is that it depends . Those in charge of the purse strings must factor in considerations ranging from talent availability to whether a pre-built solution exists in order to secure the best IT infrastructure possible . 59
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