Over the last few years, the talent gap within the tech community, and more specifically DevSecOps has continued to grow. Both development and security teams have been impacted by the talent gap and are dealing with increasingly thin teams. As a result, there are more security gaps during the development process that can lead to long development life cycles and heightened security vulnerabilities. Developer and security teams are working separately to complete their individual goals and friction occurs with workflow management. By having developer and security teams work together at the conception of a project, security measures can be integrated in real-time saving both teams time and frustration. So, what can developers do to improve cybersecurity efforts? 

Development teams are feeling the pressure to add more tasks to their workload, even outside of their scope, as layoffs and the developer gap continue to create a shortage of skilled developers. Developers are struggling to keep their heads above water, and are often siloed with minimal support from other teams.