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Cybersecurity pros spend hours on issues that should have been prevented
2022-05-17 17:39

A report released Tuesday by web application security firm Invicti looks at the time and resources spent tracking down security holes in developed applications.

Some 41% of the security professionals and 32% of the developers surveyed said they spend more than five hours each workday addressing security issues that should not have occurred in the first place.

Some 65% of the security pros and developers said they believe they saved their companies at least $1 million over the past year by preventing breaches.

"Security is everyone's job now, and so disconnects between security and development often cause unnecessary delays and manual work," said Invicti chief product officer Sonali Shah.

"Organizations can ease stressful overwork and related problems for security and DevOps teams by ensuring that security is built into the software development lifecycle, or SDLC, and is not an afterthought," Shah added.

"Application security scanning should be automated both while the software is being developed and once it is in production. By using tools that offer short scan times, accurate findings prioritized by contextualized risk and integrations into development workflows, organizations can shift security left and right while efficiently delivering secure code."


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