If your work touches on the world of software development, you’ve likely heard the saying ‘software is eating the world’ by engineer/investor Marc Andreessen. He argued that building software was becoming the business and that it has completely taken over companies. But while many can stand to benefit greatly from the brave new world where software is the product, for many organizations, the side effects of security vulnerabilities in software are ‘eating business results’ in the form of damaged brand reputation, loss of client trust and financial fines.
With at least 17,447 new vulnerabilities disclosed in 2020 alone, companies are struggling to stay ahead of software vulnerabilities and compliance issues in order to keep their products and services afloat. Fueling this perpetual race is the intense push to deliver products and product updates faster than ever, a shortage of application security professionals, and complicated multi-cloud architectures and deployment environments that make it harder to have visibility into everything that could go wrong at a given time.
Should You ‘Shift Left’?
To get ahead of this vicious development cycle, organizations should be adopting a security-minded approach. Some call this mindset ‘shift left’ or ‘shift left testing.’ It means testing software earlier in the process and re-testing along the development cycle in a continuous manner. But this task can be daunting and rather hard to scale with tightening deadlines and greater demands on everyone involved in the development process — from developers to DevOps to security teams.
One way to scale the ability to test more code in less time is using smart automation and analytic tools. By building security into the DevOps process during code, build and run stages — instead of a separate set of tasks ..
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