Developers Knowingly Push Vulnerable Code, Despite Growing Breach Risk - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News

Developers Knowingly Push Vulnerable Code, Despite Growing Breach Risk - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Virtually all companies have experienced some type of intrusion due to vulnerable code, application security firm Checkmarx said in a report released Thursday. Nearly eight in 10 firms reported experiencing such breaches in 2023, but that figure climbed more than 90% last year and reached 98% this year. At the same time, eight in 10 c…

Survey Traces Large Amount of Breaches Back to Vulnerable Code

A Checkmarx survey of AppSec stakeholders reveals 98% faced breaches from vulnerable code, with 81% admitting to shipping it to production.

Over 80 percent of organizations knowingly ship vulnerable code

New research shows 81 percent of organizations knowingly ship vulnerable code, and 98 percent experienced a breach stemming from vulnerable code in the past year, that’s a sharp rise from 91 percent in 2024. The survey from Checkmarx, of more than 1,500 CISOs, AppSec managers and developers around the world, also shows that AI‑generated code is becoming mainstream, but governance is lagging. Half of respondents already use AI security code assis…