Security News > 2024 > April > 6 keys to navigating security and app development team tensions

The security team's animosity toward development teams grows as they view developers as not "Taking security seriously enough."

That's why I've decided to share what I've learned from managing the application security team at a large telecom with some success in balancing the tensions between developers and security.

Application security provided application security training for every new developer led by the application security team with someone with enough development experience that developers would respect.

To spice things up and gain attention, we found success by adding application vulnerabilities that the security team found while conducting security checks in-house.

During training, it's essential to teach the development team how to work best with the security team, that's for sure.

While the tensions between security and development teams will always exist to some degree, and organizations will have to make some continuous efforts to mitigate these tensions, we found that by taking a few simple steps that improved understanding and empathy among these teams goes a long way to improving these relationships.

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