What steps can you take toward evolving your organization's security maturity?
Summary: PortSwigger argues that DevSecOps, which moves security earlier into development, is easy for agile startups but hard for established enterprises, so security maturity should be treated as a continuum rather than a single leap. The article recommends frequent scanning across the application portfolio alongside regular pentesting, automating scans in the CI/CD pipeline, and educating developers in security basics, noting that the later a bug is found the more expensive it is to fix.
What's compelling: The article's core claim is that the later a flaw is spotted, the more it costs - a logic bug that could be settled with a conversation at the start of development can mean a ground-up restart if it surfaces late, and pentesting alone does not scale because there are not enough testers for modern vulnerabilities.
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