While shifting security left in your software development lifecycle is crucial to application security success, it's still imperative to maintain testing in the later stages of your process. After all, some web application vulnerabilities can only be discovered at that point in the SDLC.

With a comprehensive AppSec program, you want to understand your entire development, security, and application footprint so you can roll out consistent tools and processes. As a result, only a portion of your applications are covered, leaving vulnerabilities unprotected. And blind spots are clouding visibility into risk reduction efforts, making it difficult to report on progress throughout your organization.

Veracode Static Analysis provides fast, automated security feedback to developers; conducts a full policy scan before deployment; and gives clear guidance on what issues to focus on and how to fix them faster.

You want AppSec tools in your development process, but anything less than full integration undermines your program's effectiveness. Getting the right resources into developers' hands typically requires: tools, systems, and processes.

Ongoing maintenance: Routine patches and upgrades can be time consuming-especially if you're supporting multiple geographies or teams-and may break your customizations.

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In a world where time is money, companies are required to churn out software quickly or get left in the dust. To stay ahead of the market, developers are turning towards open source code, which - when secure - can be a valuable asset towards their efforts

Developers want to create secure code, but lack training, so they must rely on AppSec experts to create secure applications. But the severe cybersecurity talent shortage leads to: As a result, developers are often conducting their own security research, which takes substantial time, increasing software delays and costs. With Veracode, you enable developers to write secure code and decrease flaws, so you can make your developers security self-sufficient.

Veracode Security Labs shifts application security knowledge "left," earlier in the development cycle, through guided, interactive exercises that train developers to tackle modern threats in the evolving cybersecurity landscape and deliver secure code on time.

Today, most organizations are in a race to deliver new, innovative software before their competitors. In turn, they have gone from bi-annual software releases to daily, hourly, or even by-the-minute releases. To keep up with these rapid deployments, security has had to shift from being a late-stage blocker, to an integrated part of the development process. Developers have been doing their best to implement these security measures, but since their performance is often tied to the rate of deployments, speed tends to take precedence. As a security professional, what are some steps you can take so that security doesn't take a back seat to speed?