There’s nothing quite like pushing security testing left — as in, blindly shifting the burden onto the laps of developers, regardless of whether development is the best/most cost effective/most appropriate time to test in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) — because of a made-up statistic plucked from Application Security (AppSec) Never Never Land. 

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from AppSec Observer authored by Lisa Vaas, Senior Content Marketing Manager, Contrast Security. Read the original post at: https://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers/shift-smart-instead-of-following-shift-left-fairy-tales-application-security-appsec-contrast-security