Application security programs often struggle to enable prevention without slowing development. The problem stems from a lack of context that makes it difficult to set targeted controls that enable easier and faster fixes. Without these guardrails in place, issues reach production faster than organizations can remediate them — leaving ballooning backlogs and applications persistently at risk.
A mature AppSec program requires teams to move beyond just identifying issues earlier and to efficiently preventing them at scale.
This guide provides a practical, five-stage framework to enable teams turn security gates into guardrails, allowing development teams to move at full speed.
What You'll Learn
This guide outlines a structured maturity progression to advance from basic visibility to prevention at scale.
Steps include:
- Gaining complete visibility and standardizing tools across your entire engineering ecosystem.
- Empowering security teams by embedding security scanning (SAST, SCA, IaC and secrets) directly into developer workflows.
- Cutting through alert noise by prioritizing risks using code, cloud, runtime, and business context.
- Implementing prevention controls incrementally to block new issues from reaching production.
- Maintaining long-term success with automated remediation, relentless measurement, and continuous improvement.
Download From Gates to Guardrails - A Practical Guide to Preventing Risk at Scale to build an AppSec program that scales with your business and systematically reduces risk.
