The Secure Developer: 2021 in review

A 2021 review of Snyk’s The Secure Developer podcast identifies three major application-security trends: security teams increasingly hiring people with software engineering backgrounds, security practices adapting to developer workflows rather than operating as end-of-cycle checkpoints, and organizations strengthening basic security hygiene at scale to respond effectively to incidents such as Log4Shell. Across 22 episodes featuring 23 guests, discussions also covered Codecov’s response to its breach, the growing role of cloud-native technologies such as eBPF, and public-sector efforts to adopt DevSecOps despite institutional risk aversion and fragmented systems. Looking ahead to 2022, the discussion highlights supply chain security, software-oriented cloud security, and better methods for quantifying application-security risk as critical priorities, alongside a broader shift toward assessing applications and their dependencies as interconnected systems rather than isolated vulnerabilities.

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