Introduction Software teams today move incredibly fast. New features are shipped every week, infrastructure changes happen in minutes, and cloud-native applications are expected to scale without interruption. While speed has become one of the biggest competitive advantages for companies, it has also created a serious challenge— security . For years, organizations treated security as the final step in software delivery. Developers built applications, operations teams deployed them, and security teams reviewed everything at the end. On paper, this process sounded organized. In reality, however, it often slowed teams down and created unnecessary friction. Security reviews became bottlenecks, vulnerabilities were discovered late, and developers frequently felt like security was blocking innovation instead of enabling it. Modern engineering teams simply cannot work that way anymore. Businesses shipping updates daily cannot afford security processes that delay releases for weeks.…