Security maturity in development teams should be a continuous cycle of improvement with realistic goals along the way. As development teams increase their security maturity, they reduce the amount of rework and minimize risk, while also allowing automation to help create efficiency in the SDLC.

Building security maturity in development teams can be approached in stages. Based on our experience with 400+ organizations, we've identified common practices and traits in three different stages of security maturity - defining, adopting, and scaling.

Defining a plan to improve developer security knowledge is no easy task, but it is a worthy one resulting in improved productivity and reduced risk. In this guide, we explore the lessons learned from three of our customers to help you assemble a secure code training blueprint.