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What Executives Should Know About Shift-Left Security

CIO Business Intelligence

By Zachary Malone, SE Academy Manager at Palo Alto Networks The term “shift left” is a reference to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) that describes the phases of the process developers follow to create an application. The term was first coined by Larry Smith in 2001. This creates risks.

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How Australia became the test bed for tech regulation

The Verge

We started off really building one product in Sydney called Jira — which is still our largest product — that started off as a bug tracker for software developers. One was we were in Australia, which is sort of an unusual place to start a company in 2001. There were a couple unique things about that. Like, that’s a great journey.