Symbiotic Security: Revolutionizing Developer Security Training
In today’s fast-paced development world, security vulnerabilities can arise quickly. Existing approaches often focus on catching these issues after they’ve been introduced, leading to delays and added costs. Symbiotic Security is changing the game by focusing on empowering developers to write secure code from the start.
Symbiotic’s innovative platform integrates directly into developers’ workflows. It acts as a real-time “copilot,” identifying potential security flaws as code is being written and guiding developers on how to fix them. This shift-left approach ensures that security is addressed in the inner loop, preventing vulnerabilities from entering the codebase in the first place.
Learn by Doing: Embedded Security Training
Recognizing that traditional security trainings can be passive and ineffective, Symbiotic takes a more engaging approach. As developers encounter potential vulnerabilities, they are presented with concise, interactive training modules directly within the coding environment. This “learning by doing” method ensures that security knowledge is immediately applicable and retained.
“It would not be sufficient to just allow them to fix [the issues] and to detect it,” explained Symbiotic co-founder Jerome Robert. “We also need to train them on security — and developers love to train; it’s an absolute, 100% certain thing. However, security trainings are painful.
Robert further adds: “For the developers, Robert argues that doing the training on the spot is something they can relate to. It’s focused on their immediate needs and not something that is abstract — and at just a few minutes, it’s short.
