Strategy question

You are a PM in a security team, the management has tasked you to reduce the security issues in the software development activities. How would you do it?

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What this question tests

Strategy and execution inside engineering: can you reduce security issues in the software development lifecycle without slowing shipping to a crawl.

Clarify the scope, assume this covers code level vulnerabilities introduced during development, not physical or account security.
Diagnose where issues enter, likely unreviewed dependencies, missing static analysis in CI, and inconsistent code review depth.
Prioritize the highest leverage fix first, automated scanning in the CI pipeline, since it catches issues before merge with no extra manual work.
Add a process layer, a lightweight security checklist for code review on sensitive areas like auth and payments.
Address culture, since engineers ignore security if it is only enforced by a separate team.
Define success as vulnerabilities caught pre merge versus found in production, and time to patch for what slips through.

Leads with automation (CI scanning) over process, since it scales without adding engineer friction.
Distinguishes catching issues early from reducing how often they are introduced in the first place.
Proposes a metric that tracks shift left progress, like percent of vulnerabilities caught before merge.

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