Chapter 13: Shift-Left Security and DevSecOps
The total number of losses caused by cyber-crimes that have been reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has increased to an all-time high, from 3.5 billion United States dollars (USD) in 2019 to 4.1 billion USD in 2020 (IC3, 2019 and 2020). This continues the trend with a strong increase over the last years (see Figure 13.1):
Among the affected companies are start-ups, as well as Fortune 500 enterprises. Affected are tech giants such as Facebook, Twitter, T-Mobile, and Microsoft, as well as public institutions such as San Francisco International Airport or security companies such as FireEye. No company can claim that cyber-crimes are not a threat to them!
In this chapter, we take a broader look at the role of security in development and how you can bake it into your process and...