Developers are frustrated by the deployment delay caused by setting up permissions and firewall rules. Which of the following would be the BEST way to resolve this issue?

Automating security services, such as provisioning permissions and configuring firewall rules, throughout the system life cycle (e.g., via Infrastructure as Code or CI/CD pipelines) streamlines the deployment process. This reduces manual intervention and delays, allowing developers to deploy applications faster while ensuring security configurations are consistently applied.

Training staff on ITIL v3 and documenting service management focuses on process improvement and governance, but does not directly automate or speed up the technical steps of setting up permissions and firewall rules during deployment.

Escalating to a change manager and reorganizing the development team are organizational or procedural changes that do not technically solve the issue of manual, time-consuming security configurations causing deployment delays.

Outsourcing security services might shift the responsibility but does not inherently resolve the underlying technical problem of slow, manual security setup causing deployment delays; it might even introduce new communication overheads.