Multiple, concurrent innovations in enterprise application development present the opportunity to improve application security by “left-shifting” it to the beginning (and throughout) the dev cycle. Mobile app developers have to a certain degree, already left-shifted security. While on the surface, there might be seemingly little common ground between large scale, cloud native enterprise app dev and mobile app dev, thanks to containers and microservices, there are more parallels than one would think – which is good news for news for enterprise application security professionals.
