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 500+ 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.  

Empower developers to improve productivity and code security

Secure Code Warrior is one of four companies named in the Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in Software Engineering: Enhancing Developer Productivity report.

According to Gartner, software engineers struggle to navigate complex code environments and to improve security of the systems they build while remaining productive. Security and Engineering leaders should consider the Cool Vendors in this research that offer innovative solutions that help organizations boost developer productivity and mitigate security risks.

Access the full report now.

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Read the Gartner Cool Vendors in Software Engineering: Enhancing Developer Productivity, by Arun Batchu, Marty Resnick, Manjunath Bhat, 16 May 2022 report.

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