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8 Free Security Tools Every Developer Should Know and Use to Shift Left

Shifting left is a development principle which states that security should move from the right (or end) of the software development life cycle (SDLC) to the left (the beginning). In other words: security should be integrated and designed into all stages of the development process.

It is important to realize that all application security vulnerabilities cannot be fixed by a single product.

Dependency Scanning helps to automatically find security vulnerabilities in your dependencies while you are developing and testing your applications, for example when your application is using an external (open source) library which is known to be vulnerable.

Contrast is another developer-first product that is able to go deeper into vulnerabilities when compared to other SAST and DAST tools which are blind to the runtime context of applications such as the controller, application logic, data layer, presentation view, user libraries, open-source components, and application server.