The importance of security maturity in development teams
Most organizations are still struggling to emphasize security as a critical element of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) with few being able to conquer the robust DevSecOps approach. For many, prioritizing features and release deadlines is still taking precedence over security. This comes with repercussions, including the increased risk of an expensive data breach and reduced productivity as teams sift through security tickets and rework.
Because developers are the first line of defense when it comes to eliminating risk from software vulnerabilities, it is important for organizations to think about increasing the maturity of their development teams. But this raises a number of questions.
How does an organization assess the security maturity of its development teams? How can setting up a security maturity roadmap not seem like an impossible task? How can you keep your developers engaged and motivated to improve their security maturity?
We have used insights from the Secure Code Warrior State of Developer-Driven Security Survey to understand the answers to these questions and made use of our world-class Customer Service teams to discover what other organizations are doing to find the answers.
How can you increase the security maturity of development teams?
No two organizations are the same when it comes to improving security maturity, with many variables to consider that can impact a company’s success in its efforts to shift left. There are many benefits to those who do - including faster creation and release of code with fewer or no vulnerabilities, which in turn reduces expensive rework, and ultimately reduces risk.
Those organizations that make progress have a defined plan with management support, and a cohesive approach to continually improve security maturity over time that covers (amongst other things):
- Defining a security maturity baseline
- Assessing teams’ security maturity
- Identifying key security weaknesses
- Building a positive security culture
Check out our new whitepaper The importance of security maturity in development teams to take an in-depth look at:
- What is security maturity in development teams, and why is it important?
- What are the different stages and characteristics of security maturity for development teams?
- What is needed to build security maturity in development teams?
The effort to shift left requires a collective, continuous improvement of security knowledge and skills, within development teams
Secure Code Warrior is here for your organization to help you secure code across the entire software development lifecycle and create a culture in which cybersecurity is top of mind. Whether you’re an AppSec Manager, Developer, CISO, or anyone involved in security, we can help your organization reduce risks associated with insecure code.
Book a demo
Most organizations are still struggling to emphasize security as a critical element of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) with few being able to conquer the robust DevSecOps approach. For many, prioritizing features and release deadlines is still taking precedence over security. This comes with repercussions, including the increased risk of an expensive data breach and reduced productivity as teams sift through security tickets and rework.
Because developers are the first line of defense when it comes to eliminating risk from software vulnerabilities, it is important for organizations to think about increasing the maturity of their development teams. But this raises a number of questions.
How does an organization assess the security maturity of its development teams? How can setting up a security maturity roadmap not seem like an impossible task? How can you keep your developers engaged and motivated to improve their security maturity?
We have used insights from the Secure Code Warrior State of Developer-Driven Security Survey to understand the answers to these questions and made use of our world-class Customer Service teams to discover what other organizations are doing to find the answers.
How can you increase the security maturity of development teams?
No two organizations are the same when it comes to improving security maturity, with many variables to consider that can impact a company’s success in its efforts to shift left. There are many benefits to those who do - including faster creation and release of code with fewer or no vulnerabilities, which in turn reduces expensive rework, and ultimately reduces risk.
Those organizations that make progress have a defined plan with management support, and a cohesive approach to continually improve security maturity over time that covers (amongst other things):
- Defining a security maturity baseline
- Assessing teams’ security maturity
- Identifying key security weaknesses
- Building a positive security culture
Check out our new whitepaper The importance of security maturity in development teams to take an in-depth look at:
- What is security maturity in development teams, and why is it important?
- What are the different stages and characteristics of security maturity for development teams?
- What is needed to build security maturity in development teams?
Most organizations are still struggling to emphasize security as a critical element of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) with few being able to conquer the robust DevSecOps approach. For many, prioritizing features and release deadlines is still taking precedence over security. This comes with repercussions, including the increased risk of an expensive data breach and reduced productivity as teams sift through security tickets and rework.
Because developers are the first line of defense when it comes to eliminating risk from software vulnerabilities, it is important for organizations to think about increasing the maturity of their development teams. But this raises a number of questions.
How does an organization assess the security maturity of its development teams? How can setting up a security maturity roadmap not seem like an impossible task? How can you keep your developers engaged and motivated to improve their security maturity?
We have used insights from the Secure Code Warrior State of Developer-Driven Security Survey to understand the answers to these questions and made use of our world-class Customer Service teams to discover what other organizations are doing to find the answers.
How can you increase the security maturity of development teams?
No two organizations are the same when it comes to improving security maturity, with many variables to consider that can impact a company’s success in its efforts to shift left. There are many benefits to those who do - including faster creation and release of code with fewer or no vulnerabilities, which in turn reduces expensive rework, and ultimately reduces risk.
Those organizations that make progress have a defined plan with management support, and a cohesive approach to continually improve security maturity over time that covers (amongst other things):
- Defining a security maturity baseline
- Assessing teams’ security maturity
- Identifying key security weaknesses
- Building a positive security culture
Check out our new whitepaper The importance of security maturity in development teams to take an in-depth look at:
- What is security maturity in development teams, and why is it important?
- What are the different stages and characteristics of security maturity for development teams?
- What is needed to build security maturity in development teams?
Click on the link below and download the PDF of this resource.
Secure Code Warrior is here for your organization to help you secure code across the entire software development lifecycle and create a culture in which cybersecurity is top of mind. Whether you’re an AppSec Manager, Developer, CISO, or anyone involved in security, we can help your organization reduce risks associated with insecure code.
View reportBook a demo
Most organizations are still struggling to emphasize security as a critical element of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) with few being able to conquer the robust DevSecOps approach. For many, prioritizing features and release deadlines is still taking precedence over security. This comes with repercussions, including the increased risk of an expensive data breach and reduced productivity as teams sift through security tickets and rework.
Because developers are the first line of defense when it comes to eliminating risk from software vulnerabilities, it is important for organizations to think about increasing the maturity of their development teams. But this raises a number of questions.
How does an organization assess the security maturity of its development teams? How can setting up a security maturity roadmap not seem like an impossible task? How can you keep your developers engaged and motivated to improve their security maturity?
We have used insights from the Secure Code Warrior State of Developer-Driven Security Survey to understand the answers to these questions and made use of our world-class Customer Service teams to discover what other organizations are doing to find the answers.
How can you increase the security maturity of development teams?
No two organizations are the same when it comes to improving security maturity, with many variables to consider that can impact a company’s success in its efforts to shift left. There are many benefits to those who do - including faster creation and release of code with fewer or no vulnerabilities, which in turn reduces expensive rework, and ultimately reduces risk.
Those organizations that make progress have a defined plan with management support, and a cohesive approach to continually improve security maturity over time that covers (amongst other things):
- Defining a security maturity baseline
- Assessing teams’ security maturity
- Identifying key security weaknesses
- Building a positive security culture
Check out our new whitepaper The importance of security maturity in development teams to take an in-depth look at:
- What is security maturity in development teams, and why is it important?
- What are the different stages and characteristics of security maturity for development teams?
- What is needed to build security maturity in development teams?
Table of contents
Secure Code Warrior is here for your organization to help you secure code across the entire software development lifecycle and create a culture in which cybersecurity is top of mind. Whether you’re an AppSec Manager, Developer, CISO, or anyone involved in security, we can help your organization reduce risks associated with insecure code.
Book a demoDownloadResources to get you started
Secure code training topics & content
Our industry-leading content is always evolving to fit the ever changing software development landscape with your role in mind. Topics covering everything from AI to XQuery Injection, offered for a variety of roles from Architects and Engineers to Product Managers and QA. Get a sneak peak of what our content catalog has to offer by topic and role.
Quests: Industry leading learning to keep developers ahead of the game mitigating risk.
Quests is a learning platform that helps developers mitigate software security risks by enhancing their secure coding skills. With curated learning paths, hands-on challenges, and interactive activities, it empowers developers to identify and prevent vulnerabilities.
Resources to get you started
The Decade of the Defenders: Secure Code Warrior Turns Ten
Secure Code Warrior's founding team has stayed together, steering the ship through every lesson, triumph, and setback for an entire decade. We’re scaling up and ready to face our next chapter, SCW 2.0, as the leaders in developer risk management.
10 Key Predictions: Secure Code Warrior on AI & Secure-by-Design’s Influence in 2025
Organizations are facing tough decisions on AI usage to support long-term productivity, sustainability, and security ROI. It’s become clear to us over the last few years that AI will never fully replace the role of the developer. From AI + developer partnerships to the increasing pressures (and confusion) around Secure-by-Design expectations, let’s take a closer look at what we can expect over the next year.
Developer-driven coding.
Securely.
Contact us today and make software security an intrinsic part of your development process.
