Open-source code has helped companies to accelerate their digital transformation in 2020 with rapidly deployed new applications.
To keep up the pace, those companies have increasingly turned to open source code, gleaned from services like Microsoft-owned GitHub, to speed up the development of new software and processes. Experts suggest visualizing the software development process as an arrow moving from right to left. Right now, detection of any problem occurs all the way at the end of the process, often after the software is already deployed. Thus, moving security earlier in the process of building new computer programs is known as a "shift left," which has become something of a mantra in the industry.
"Developers are going around security. That's what that stat says to me. And who can blame them? Security has been the bottleneck." McKay says. "Developers don't want to go to security, because security slows them down. And to an extent, CEOs want them to deploy code faster."