Organizations are knowingly releasing vulnerable applications

2024-03-05 04:00

92% of companies had experienced a breach in the prior year due to vulnerabilities of applications developed in-house, according to Checkmarx.

In recent years the responsibility for application security has shifted away from dedicated security teams and is now shared between AppSec managers and developers.

With more software to secure that has been deployed in more environments with less time available to secure it, a remarkable 91% of companies have knowingly released vulnerable applications.

Asked why respondents had released vulnerable applications, business pressure was a significant reason with 29% of AppSec managers saying they had released the applications "To meet a business, feature or security-related deadline," 18% of CISOs saying that they hoped the vulnerability would not be exploitable, and 29% of developers saying that the vulnerability would be fixed in a later release.

Developers' top three security concerns are focused on the tension between time-to-delivery demands and the potential volumes of vulnerabilities requiring remediation, including impediment of the development process by security demands, difficulty knowing which vulnerabilities to fix and how to prioritize them and lack of context to help remediate vulnerabilities.

The composition of applications has become more complex, increasing to include source code, open source packages, infrastructure-as-code, containers and more.

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