State Of Application Security: Nearly 60 Percent Of Apps Fail First Security Test – DarkReading

Application security may still have a ways to go, but Open Source is showing promise…

Despite the relatively gloomy picture of developers still missing the mark initially on security, there were some bright spots in the report: Open-source software isn’t as risky as you’d think, and financial services organizations and government agencies tend to have more secure applications from the get-go; more than half of their apps passed as acceptable in the first submission to testing, according to Veracode’s report.

“The conventional wisdom is that open source is risky. But open source was no worse than commercial software upon first submission. That’s encouraging,” Oberg says. And it was the quickest to remediate any flaws: “It took about 30 days to remediate open-source software, and much longer for commercial and internal projects,” he says.

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