Symbiotic Security has announced the industry’s first real-time security solution for software development, combining detection, remediation, and just-in-time training. This innovation integrates security testing and training seamlessly into the development process, ensuring developers can maintain their workflow without interruptions.

Backed with $3 million of seed funding from investors including Lerer Hippeau, Axeleo Capital, Factorial Capital, and others, the company has introduced its software-as-a-service that works with the developer’s Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and enables them to develop software more securely.

A Ponemon survey of 634 IT and IT security practitioners reported the top challenges to shift-left security were: a lack of integrated security tools (51%); an increase in work for developers (43%); too many vulnerabilities to fix (40%). These are precisely the challenges addressed by Symbiotic Security.

“Traditional approaches to code security are broken, which we fix by integrating security at the time code is written,” said Jerome Robert, co-founder and CEO, Symbiotic Security. “Symbiotic requires no additional developer training – it is the training. Our mission is to be the developer’s partner in security and we believe that this is the defining moment for cybersecurity where the vision of ‘shift-left’ is finally realized.”

The concept of ‘shift-left’ is to integrate security into the earliest parts of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), which includes passing security responsibilities to developers. The initiative hasn’t yet been successful because, until now, developers have not been properly equipped nor have they found any operational gain in being responsible for securing their assets.

Symbiotic provides developers with real-time feedback on potential security vulnerabilities as they write code, as well as remediation recommendations, and training with information that helps further educate developers on the specific security issues encountered. The company has launched its minimum viable product for iteration, feedback, and testing and already has active deployments at eight companies. All are actively leveraging both the remediation plugin and the training, while providing user feedback that Symbiotic is using to further enhance the product.

Symbiotic Security helps developers ship clean code, which helps eliminate security backlogs without disrupting workflows.