Level Up Your Security Champions (and Your Program)

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Security Champions are a mainstay of current application security programs. A number of great documents and presentations are available to help you get a program started. Datadog security engineers had used those resources to build and maintain programs at a number of organizations – and they had unfortunately seen many of the same problems arise in those different situations. For example, Security Champions may not have the authority needed to prioritize security tasks, they may vary widely in …

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