07 April 2022

Checkmarx released the UK findings of its report AppSec: The View from Security and Software Development Experts, in which it found that 45% of organisations have suffered at least two security breaches as a direct result of a vulnerable application. Alongside this, the report discovered over a third (34%) of UK organisations who had experienced a security breach relating to an application in the year preceding the survey have laid off employees seen as bearing responsibility. Respondents of the survey, which was commissioned to spotlight the biggest security challenges that application security (AppSec) managers and software developers are facing in today’s threat landscape, also noted those who often bear the most responsibility for the security of applications as software developers (39%), and application security managers (32%).