Let’s address the elephant in the room — “Shift left” hasn’t had the impact on our software security as many of us expected it to have. While it has influenced security in an indispensable way, I argue that “shift left” should be viewed as a tactic in a larger management strategy rather than a solution to solve appsec woes. I will review the success and limitations of “shift left” and how we can “restart” the process by applying it a little differently. Clinton Herget Enso Security Field CTO Clinton Herget is Field CTO at Snyk, the leader in Developer Security, where he focuses on crafting and evangelizing our strategic vision for the evolution of DevSecOps. A seasoned technologist, Clinton spent his 20-year career prior to Snyk as a web software developer, DevOps consultant, cloud solutions architect, and engineering director. Clinton is passionate about empowering software engineers to do their best work in the chaotic cloud-native world, and is a frequent conference speaker, developer advocate, and technical thought leader. Managed by the OWASP® Foundation https://owasp.org/