The report defined a flaw as 'an implementation defect that can lead to a vulnerability.'
The study draws on scans of 759,000 applications that Veracode customers conducted with the company's platform during the past 12 months. Overall, 74% of the scanned applications had at least one flaw, and 19% had an issue deemed"high or critical severity.
"There are all the applications that are not business critical enough – or they don't have scanning in their budget, or for whatever reasons there's not visibility at this level – they're not being scanned at all, perhaps," Eng said."They're generating even more security attack vectors than these ones are.
"We only know about this because they are scanning, and we are finding the risk – like, we are finding flaws for them," Wysopal said."It's just they're... doing less about it than they were earlier in the life cycle." Organizations can reduce risks by conducting frequent, automated scans to help catch issues promptly. That makes it more likely flaws are detected while the project team still includes people familiar with the code – or even the engineer who introduced the mistake – and so can make adjustment without having to refamiliarize themselves, Wysopal said.Secure development training
But more attention has turned to the issue. In the aftermath of Log4j, the federal Cyber Safety Review Board issued recommendations for improving the cybersecurity landscape; these included making secure software development part of computer science education.
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