For platform engineering teams, this presents both a challenge and an opportunity. The challenge lies in integrating robust security measures without compromising the speed, efficiency, or self-service nature of the platform. The opportunity is to create a secure foundation that enables development teams to build applications that are secure by default, without having to become security experts themselves. In this comprehensive guide for technical leaders, we’ll walk through why security can no longer be treated as an afterthought or a final checkpoint before deployment and how you can support security teams by empowering developers to build secure software.