How Developers Are Building More Secure Native Apps With Shift Left Security?

What is Shift left security?

First of all, do you know what shift security left means?  It’s nothing but implementing security measures in the whole app development lifecycle rather than implementing them at the end of app development.  The goal of shift security left measures is to detect & fix potential security measures earlier as possible in the app development lifecycle. Shift security left makes addressing security issues easier, faster and affordable.

There was a time when security testing was done at the end of the app development lifecycle. Static analysis and dynamic analysis were performed by the security team. 

Why did Shift left security?

Shift left security helps developers in building applications quickly as the security measures are implemented in the whole app development lifecycle. And in situations when security measures were implemented at the end of the app development process. Testers run some tests and if they find any issues or vulnerabilities in the app then they pass it back to developers to resolve them. These approaches take lots of time and delay the whole app development process.

App developers also admit that the shift left security has helped them a lot in streamlining the app development process.