Santa Clara, Calif. — August 2, 2022 — ShiftLeft, a disruptor and innovator on the earth of DevSecOps and NextGen SAST and SCA, as we speak named Stuart McClure as CEO. With greater than 30 years in safety, vulnerabilities and prevention know-how, McClure will leverage his expertise to allow progress and enlargement for the corporate whereas advancing AI/ML within the DevSecOps and software safety market.
“I’m honored to affix ShiftLeft as CEO and construct on the corporate’s stellar basis of innovation and thought management round vulnerability detection and prevention within the steady integration/steady supply (CI/CD) panorama,” acknowledged Stuart McClure, CEO of ShiftLeft. “I’ve been ready virtually 30 years to shift your entire dialogue left and take prevention to the basis reason behind cybersecurity vulnerabilities: supply code. And with their latest $29M financing spherical ShiftLeft is ready up for fulfillment.”
The ShiftLeft platform integrates with the CI/CD pipeline and developer group to rapidly establish the recognized and unknown vulnerabilities that matter most to your group. Cybersecurity threats start with code, making them utterly preventable if you happen to establish and tackle them in actual time, and earlier than they develop into a part of your product. ShiftLeft’s resolution has been constructed from the bottom as much as remedy the core of this drawback and allows builders and software safety groups to collaborate collectively to repair what issues most, rapidly.
“As a board member, Stuart has been instrumental in promulgating the worth ShiftLeft brings to the event and safety group which can now go to scaling the enterprise,” says Jay Leek, Managing Accomplice & Co-founder at SYN Ventures. “We’re extraordinarily grateful to Manish Gupta for constructing a tremendously beneficial firm and resolution and stay up for the place Stuart will take it.”
“Stuart’s background and command of the cyber panorama makes him the proper chief for ShiftLeft’s subsequent evolution,” says Manish Gupta, Founder and Former CEO who will proceed as Advisor to ShiftLeft and the board.
“Stuart has lengthy been among the many only a few that I might go into any foxhole with within the cybersecurity trade,” mentioned Malcolm Harkins, former CISO of Intel and Cylance. “His expertise on the earth of prevention will apply extraordinarily nicely to tackling the ultimate place to take prevention, that of code.”
Previous to becoming a member of ShiftLeft, McClure led Cylance as its Founder and CEO and was acquired by Blackberry in 2019, driving a revolutionary new AI/ML-based method to risk prevention, detection and response. Previous to Cylance, he was International CTO for McAfee/Intel, Founder/President/CTO of Foundstone which offered to McAfee in 2004, and at Ernst & Younger he was a founding staff member of their cybersecurity apply. Lastly, Stuart’s data of how the attacker works is nicely often known as the founding writer of the world’s hottest cybersecurity franchise known as Hacking Uncovered and later
Net Hacking.
About ShiftLeft
ShiftLeft empowers builders and AppSec groups to dramatically scale back threat by rapidly discovering and fixing the vulnerabilities almost definitely to achieve their purposes and ignoring reported vulnerabilities that pose little threat. Trade-leading accuracy permits builders to give attention to safety fixes that matter and enhance code velocity whereas enabling AppSec engineers to shift safety left. A unified code safety platform,
ShiftLeft CORE
scans for assault context throughout customized code, APIs, OSS, containers, inside microservices, and first-party enterprise logic by combining outcomes of the corporate’s and Clever Software program Composition Evaluation (SCA). Utilizing its distinctive graph database that mixes code attributes and analyzes precise assault paths based mostly on actual software structure, ShiftLeft then gives detailed steering on threat remediation inside current improvement workflows and tooling. Groups that use ShiftLeft ship safer code, quicker. Backed by SYN Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Blackstone, Mayfield, Thomvest Ventures, and SineWave Ventures, ShiftLeft is predicated in Santa Clara, California.
