Modern cybersecurity challenges can often seem insurmountable, leaving CISOs and their teams struggling to keep up with emerging threats. But with a practical and people-focused approach, defenders can still maintain the upper hand. Our latest whitepaper covers these key challenges and provides practical strategies to improve your organization's security posture.

From attracting and retaining cybersecurity talent to navigating issues with legacy systems, our whitepaper delves into the most pressing concerns facing today's CISOs. We explore the power of right-fit tools and training to upskill developers and create a security-first culture within your organization.

Secure development learning platforms (SDLPs) help developers improve software security skills as they work, no matter what their individual security knowledge is. They offer integrated guidance and access to learning materials based on the security needs of developer teams, the software concerned, and its known vulnerabilities and flaws. Leading SDLPs support multiple languages, programming frameworks, and architectures, cover a broad and up-to-date catalog of vulnerabilities, and provide benefits-based, actionable reporting to CISOs and CIOs.

This short paper is aimed at decision-makers and technology buyers looking to evaluate security development learning platforms.

DevOps and security professionals have been talking about shifting left for years, but why does it seem to be so difficult to do in practice? 

Developers ship code faster than ever before. This may seem like a good thing, but it introduces a new risk because security is often deprioritized in order to meet tight deadlines and market demand. This leaves AppSec to be the last line of defense, leaving a huge portion of work on AppSec which are already resource-constrained and dealing with ever-growing complexity.

The goal is to move security and testing from the last step in the process to the very beginning, helping to reduce the number of bugs introduced into the code base and mitigating rework. 

Shifting left has been consistently cited as the key to shipping code successfully and without significant delays. 

We want to help development teams and AppSec teams to shift left. That’s why we have created a handbook to developer-driven security. It summarizes best practices to implement developer-driven security, how to engage, upskill and increase security knowledge as well as how to go about measuring impact.

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Software has evolved to become the lifeblood of companies across all sectors and industries, with digital transformation and innovation key drivers of modern business operations.

While speed-to-market and availability of applications are board-level topics for most companies, this accelerated development and delivery carries a hefty price that is too often paid: the deprioritization of security. Independent research carried out in conjunction with Evans Data confirmed that just 29% of developers believe that writing vulnerability-free code should be prioritized.

As a result, the friction between software development and security remains unresolved, while the risk of doing business in a world of devastating data breaches runs at an all-time high.

In this fireside chat, a panel of security experts from Allianz, BMW,  Siemens, Contrast and Secure Code Warrior will discuss how development and AppSec teams can be harmonized, without sacrificing deployment speed or compromising on code quality and security. 

You will learn:

• How to understand the developer mindset and motivate them by appealing to their engineering excellence 
• Better investments in the modern AppSec team
• What IAST is, and how, together with RASP, it can save time and money
• How developers can ask for the right kind of help from their security teams 
• How the security team can help developers identify, assess, and prioritize vulnerabilities to determine whether they need immediate mitigation or ongoing monitoring.

Building security maturity in developer teams can be approached in stages. Based on Secure Code Warrior's experience with 400+ organizations, we've identified the common practices & traits in three different stages of security maturity - defining, adopting, and scaling. How security-savvy are your developer teams? Take the quiz to find out.