The importance of security maturity in development teams
Most organizations are still struggling to emphasize security as a critical element of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) with few being able to conquer the robust DevSecOps approach. For many, prioritizing features and release deadlines is still taking precedence over security. This comes with repercussions, including the increased risk of an expensive data breach and reduced productivity as teams sift through security tickets and rework.
Because developers are the first line of defense when it comes to eliminating risk from software vulnerabilities, it is important for organizations to think about increasing the maturity of their development teams. But this raises a number of questions.
How does an organization assess the security maturity of its development teams? How can setting up a security maturity roadmap not seem like an impossible task? How can you keep your developers engaged and motivated to improve their security maturity?
We have used insights from the Secure Code Warrior State of Developer-Driven Security Survey to understand the answers to these questions and made use of our world-class Customer Service teams to discover what other organizations are doing to find the answers.
How can you increase the security maturity of development teams?
No two organizations are the same when it comes to improving security maturity, with many variables to consider that can impact a company’s success in its efforts to shift left. There are many benefits to those who do - including faster creation and release of code with fewer or no vulnerabilities, which in turn reduces expensive rework, and ultimately reduces risk.
Those organizations that make progress have a defined plan with management support, and a cohesive approach to continually improve security maturity over time that covers (amongst other things):
- Defining a security maturity baseline
- Assessing teams’ security maturity
- Identifying key security weaknesses
- Building a positive security culture
Check out our new whitepaper The importance of security maturity in development teams to take an in-depth look at:
- What is security maturity in development teams, and why is it important?
- What are the different stages and characteristics of security maturity for development teams?
- What is needed to build security maturity in development teams?
The effort to shift left requires a collective, continuous improvement of security knowledge and skills, within development teams
Secure Code Warrior is here for your organization to help you secure code across the entire software development lifecycle and create a culture in which cybersecurity is top of mind. Whether you’re an AppSec Manager, Developer, CISO, or anyone involved in security, we can help your organization reduce risks associated with insecure code.
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Most organizations are still struggling to emphasize security as a critical element of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) with few being able to conquer the robust DevSecOps approach. For many, prioritizing features and release deadlines is still taking precedence over security. This comes with repercussions, including the increased risk of an expensive data breach and reduced productivity as teams sift through security tickets and rework.
Because developers are the first line of defense when it comes to eliminating risk from software vulnerabilities, it is important for organizations to think about increasing the maturity of their development teams. But this raises a number of questions.
How does an organization assess the security maturity of its development teams? How can setting up a security maturity roadmap not seem like an impossible task? How can you keep your developers engaged and motivated to improve their security maturity?
We have used insights from the Secure Code Warrior State of Developer-Driven Security Survey to understand the answers to these questions and made use of our world-class Customer Service teams to discover what other organizations are doing to find the answers.
How can you increase the security maturity of development teams?
No two organizations are the same when it comes to improving security maturity, with many variables to consider that can impact a company’s success in its efforts to shift left. There are many benefits to those who do - including faster creation and release of code with fewer or no vulnerabilities, which in turn reduces expensive rework, and ultimately reduces risk.
Those organizations that make progress have a defined plan with management support, and a cohesive approach to continually improve security maturity over time that covers (amongst other things):
- Defining a security maturity baseline
- Assessing teams’ security maturity
- Identifying key security weaknesses
- Building a positive security culture
Check out our new whitepaper The importance of security maturity in development teams to take an in-depth look at:
- What is security maturity in development teams, and why is it important?
- What are the different stages and characteristics of security maturity for development teams?
- What is needed to build security maturity in development teams?
Most organizations are still struggling to emphasize security as a critical element of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) with few being able to conquer the robust DevSecOps approach. For many, prioritizing features and release deadlines is still taking precedence over security. This comes with repercussions, including the increased risk of an expensive data breach and reduced productivity as teams sift through security tickets and rework.
Because developers are the first line of defense when it comes to eliminating risk from software vulnerabilities, it is important for organizations to think about increasing the maturity of their development teams. But this raises a number of questions.
How does an organization assess the security maturity of its development teams? How can setting up a security maturity roadmap not seem like an impossible task? How can you keep your developers engaged and motivated to improve their security maturity?
We have used insights from the Secure Code Warrior State of Developer-Driven Security Survey to understand the answers to these questions and made use of our world-class Customer Service teams to discover what other organizations are doing to find the answers.
How can you increase the security maturity of development teams?
No two organizations are the same when it comes to improving security maturity, with many variables to consider that can impact a company’s success in its efforts to shift left. There are many benefits to those who do - including faster creation and release of code with fewer or no vulnerabilities, which in turn reduces expensive rework, and ultimately reduces risk.
Those organizations that make progress have a defined plan with management support, and a cohesive approach to continually improve security maturity over time that covers (amongst other things):
- Defining a security maturity baseline
- Assessing teams’ security maturity
- Identifying key security weaknesses
- Building a positive security culture
Check out our new whitepaper The importance of security maturity in development teams to take an in-depth look at:
- What is security maturity in development teams, and why is it important?
- What are the different stages and characteristics of security maturity for development teams?
- What is needed to build security maturity in development teams?
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Secure Code Warrior is here for your organization to help you secure code across the entire software development lifecycle and create a culture in which cybersecurity is top of mind. Whether you’re an AppSec Manager, Developer, CISO, or anyone involved in security, we can help your organization reduce risks associated with insecure code.
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Most organizations are still struggling to emphasize security as a critical element of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) with few being able to conquer the robust DevSecOps approach. For many, prioritizing features and release deadlines is still taking precedence over security. This comes with repercussions, including the increased risk of an expensive data breach and reduced productivity as teams sift through security tickets and rework.
Because developers are the first line of defense when it comes to eliminating risk from software vulnerabilities, it is important for organizations to think about increasing the maturity of their development teams. But this raises a number of questions.
How does an organization assess the security maturity of its development teams? How can setting up a security maturity roadmap not seem like an impossible task? How can you keep your developers engaged and motivated to improve their security maturity?
We have used insights from the Secure Code Warrior State of Developer-Driven Security Survey to understand the answers to these questions and made use of our world-class Customer Service teams to discover what other organizations are doing to find the answers.
How can you increase the security maturity of development teams?
No two organizations are the same when it comes to improving security maturity, with many variables to consider that can impact a company’s success in its efforts to shift left. There are many benefits to those who do - including faster creation and release of code with fewer or no vulnerabilities, which in turn reduces expensive rework, and ultimately reduces risk.
Those organizations that make progress have a defined plan with management support, and a cohesive approach to continually improve security maturity over time that covers (amongst other things):
- Defining a security maturity baseline
- Assessing teams’ security maturity
- Identifying key security weaknesses
- Building a positive security culture
Check out our new whitepaper The importance of security maturity in development teams to take an in-depth look at:
- What is security maturity in development teams, and why is it important?
- What are the different stages and characteristics of security maturity for development teams?
- What is needed to build security maturity in development teams?
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Secure Code Warrior is here for your organization to help you secure code across the entire software development lifecycle and create a culture in which cybersecurity is top of mind. Whether you’re an AppSec Manager, Developer, CISO, or anyone involved in security, we can help your organization reduce risks associated with insecure code.
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Secure by Design: Defining Best Practices, Enabling Developers and Benchmarking Preventative Security Outcomes
In this research paper, Secure Code Warrior co-founders, Pieter Danhieux and Dr. Matias Madou, Ph.D., along with expert contributors, Chris Inglis, Former US National Cyber Director (now Strategic Advisor to Paladin Capital Group), and Devin Lynch, Senior Director, Paladin Global Institute, will reveal key findings from over twenty in-depth interviews with enterprise security leaders including CISOs, a VP of Application Security, and software security professionals.
Benchmarking Security Skills: Streamlining Secure-by-Design in the Enterprise
Finding meaningful data on the success of Secure-by-Design initiatives is notoriously difficult. CISOs are often challenged when attempting to prove the return on investment (ROI) and business value of security program activities at both the people and company levels. Not to mention, it’s particularly difficult for enterprises to gain insights into how their organizations are benchmarked against current industry standards. The President’s National Cybersecurity Strategy challenged stakeholders to “embrace security and resilience by design.” The key to making Secure-by-Design initiatives work is not only giving developers the skills to ensure secure code, but also assuring the regulators that those skills are in place. In this presentation, we share a myriad of qualitative and quantitative data, derived from multiple primary sources, including internal data points collected from over 250,000 developers, data-driven customer insights, and public studies. Leveraging this aggregation of data points, we aim to communicate a vision of the current state of Secure-by-Design initiatives across multiple verticals. The report details why this space is currently underutilized, the significant impact a successful upskilling program can have on cybersecurity risk mitigation, and the potential to eliminate categories of vulnerabilities from a codebase.
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Revealed: How the Cyber Industry Defines Secure by Design
In our latest white paper, our Co-Founders, Pieter Danhieux and Dr. Matias Madou, Ph.D., sat down with over twenty enterprise security leaders, including CISOs, AppSec leaders and security professionals, to figure out the key pieces of this puzzle and uncover the reality behind the Secure by Design movement. It’s a shared ambition across the security teams, but no shared playbook.
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Vibe coding is like a college frat party, and AI is the centerpiece of all the festivities, the keg. It’s a lot of fun to let loose, get creative, and see where your imagination can take you, but after a few keg stands, drinking (or, using AI) in moderation is undoubtedly the safer long-term solution.
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