Security News > 2020 > October > Theory and practice of web application security efforts in organizations worldwide

75% of executives believe their organization scans all web applications for security vulnerabilities, while nearly 50% of security staff say they don't, a Netsparker survey reveals.

Even more concerning, over 60% of DevOps respondents indicate that new security vulnerabilities are being found faster than they can be fixed, indicating that web application security efforts are insufficient.

Over 66% of respondents named web application security as a priority - more than any other aspect of IT security, ahead of network security, endpoint security, and patch management.

Just under 40% of developers indicated that critical security issues get automatically escalated, showing that organizations still have a long way to go to fully integrate security into the software development process.

The survey shows a worrying disconnect between the theory and practice of web application security.

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