Cybersecurity Dive August 15, 2025
Only three in 10 respondents said their application security programs were highly mature.
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 companies said they sometimes or often released software with code they knew was vulnerable, up from two-thirds in 2024. “This isn’t oversight,” Checkmarx said. “It’s strategy.”
Dive Insight:
While many cyberattacks exploit human error, including through social engineering, software vulnerabilities remain a potent way to penetrate a target...
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