What Executives Should Know About Shift-Left Security
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By Zachary Malone, SE Academy Manager at Palo Alto Networks The term “shift left” is a reference to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) that describes the phases of the process developers follow to create an application. Often, this lifecycle is depicted as a horizontal timeline with the conceptual and coding phases “starting” the cycle on the left side, so to move any process earlier in the cycle is to shift it left. “Shift-left security” is the concept that security measures, focus areas, and implications should occur further to the left—or earlier—in the lifecycle than the typical pha…