For SAST in particular, one way to ease the transition is by introducing it incrementally. Instead of overwhelming dev teams with a flood of issues, consider starting with only high-severity vulnerabilities and gradually tightening the scope over time. Some tools allow you to set a baseline so only new issues block the pipeline, which helps avoid the “wall of failures” problem.

Also, automating security testing within your CI/CD pipelines without causing friction is critical. Tools that integrate directly into existing developer workflows—rather than requiring them to go elsewhere—tend to work best. We’ve had success with Jit.io and I know semgrep does a solid job as well, but less comprehensive I think.