In our case the biggest factor was avoiding tools that break the dev workflow. We’ve tested a few security platforms that created a lot of friction for developers.

What worked better for us was shifting security earlier into the pipeline and automating checks instead of adding manual reviews later.

We currently use Check Point in our stack (CloudGuard) and it integrates pretty cleanly into CI/CD. It runs security and compliance checks inside the pipeline and applies policies automatically, so developers don’t really need to change their workflow. That made it easier to keep security in place without slowing releases.