Secure SDLC is the ultimate example of what’s known as a “shift-left” initiative, which refers to integrating security checks as early in the SDLC as possible. It requires adding security testing at each software development stage, from design, to development, to deployment and beyond
This allows the issues to be fixed by the domain experts who wrote the software rather than having a different team fix the bugs as an afterthought. This empowers developers to take ownership of the overall quality of their applications, which leads to more secure applications being deployed to production.
The secure SDLC environment requires frequent collaboration between DevOps and the engineers implementing the application’s functionality, and this collaboration needs to be incorporated into the SDLC itself.
By fixing these issues early in the process, development teams can reduce the total cost of ownership of their applications. Discovering issues late in the SDLC can result in a multi-fold increase in the development cost needed to fix those issues, as seen in the chart below.
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