Level Up Your Security Game: The Power of Cycode and Immersive in the SDLC

At Immersive, our mission is to prove and improve your organization's cyber resilience. Similarly, Cycode empowers companies to identify, prioritize, and remediate the software risks that truly matter. Our partnership brings these two missions together, bridging the gap between technology and people to help you truly shift left.

Here's how to think about it:

• Cycode is the "what" and the "where." The Cycode platform gives you deep visibility, finding and prioritizing vulnerabilities across your entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Immersive is the "how" and the "why." Immersive delivers hands-on, practical labs and exercises that enable your developers to fix those issues and understand why secure code matters.

This combination offers a measurable path for organizations to benchmark their security posture, align with key frameworks, and strengthen their response to cyber threats.

Think about it: a 2024 Gartner survey found that 75% of organizations see application security as the top skill needed to deliver software that meets business needs. In an era of constant cyber threats, the integrity of our applications is everything.

The Challenge: Shifting Left Without Slowing Down

One of the smartest strategies is "shifting left"—embedding security early in the SDLC. The numbers don't lie. Catching vulnerabilities early can save millions; fixing a flaw late in the process can be up to 640 times more expensive than addressing it during development.

But let's be honest about the developer's point of view. The main focus is writing clean, efficient code and shipping it fast. While security is important, it can sometimes feel like a roadblock, creating friction between the CISO, who is focused on security posture, and engineering leaders, who are focused on speed.

This is the problem we solve. Traditional, one-off training doesn't keep up. Finding a vulnerability is one thing, but making sure developers have the skills to fix it—and prevent it from happening again—is the real challenge.

The Solution: Connecting Vulnerabilities to Real Skills

Our partnership with Cycode creates a direct link between the technology that finds risks and the hands-on training that builds skills, turning "we think we're ready" into "we know we're ready."

It works through two key workflows:

1. Validate Adherence to Secure Coding Best-Practices: Immersive ensures your developers are certified with the necessary security skills through hands-on training, giving them a "license to code." Cycode then provides real-world validation by ensuring that committed code follows security best practices, which helps identify high-risk developers.
2. Prove and Improve Developer Secure Coding Practices: This is the continuous feedback loop. Cycode maps vulnerabilities found in the code back to the developers who own them. Immersive then delivers tailored, "just-in-time" training content based on those specific vulnerabilities. This allows you to measure the real-world effectiveness of your security program by tracking the reduction of vulnerabilities over time.

A Look Across the Entire SDLC

The partnership weaves security into every stage of the development cycle, making it integrated and agile.

• Planning: Immersive empowers your organization with threat modeling capabilities. Understanding your application's attack surface from the start allows for a security-first mindset right from the initial planning stages.
• Design: As developers craft modules and UI, Immersive ensures they have a deep understanding of best practices, including the OWASP Top 10. We equip them with the knowledge of secure design to build secure code from the ground up.
• Implement: Once code is checked into the repository, Cycode’s SAST, SCA, and IAC scanners identify vulnerabilities. The partnership elevates this process by linking these findings directly to targeted Immersive labs.
• Test: In test environments, Cycode ingests results from DAST scanners and penetration tests, identifying vulnerabilities in the running application and tracing the exposure path back to the line of code in your repository.
• Deploy: As applications move to cloud environments, securing CI/CD pipelines and managing secrets is critical. Immersive provides extensive content on securely deploying to various environments, including securing S3 buckets and Kubernetes.
• Maintain: After deployment, Cycode enables ongoing scans against the production environment. This continuous feedback loop is essential for maintaining a strong security posture and informing future training needs.

The Outcome: Measurable Cyber Resilience

What does this all lead to? True cyber resilience. It’s the ability to build secure applications and prove and improve your organization's overall cyber capabilities. This integrated approach gives the CISO the reporting needed across the entire cyber landscape.

The benefits are tangible. You can demonstrate compliance with regulations like DORA and GDPR and align with cybersecurity frameworks like NIST and the MITRE ATT&CK framework. You can also show exactly how threat tactics are being addressed through the continuous feedback loop powered by Cycode and Immersive.

By implementing Cycode together with Immersive, you close the gaps in the SDLC and create one cohesive view. This fosters an agile environment where security is built in, not bolted on. It empowers CISOs to report effectively and enables developers to fix vulnerabilities earlier—a win for security and development alike.

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