VentureBeat July 31, 2024
Application security often gets sacrificed for speed and to meet ever-tightening time-to-market windows for new apps needed to fuel new revenue growth.
Increasing the urgency to get apps out early are compensation plans for CIOs, DevOps leaders and their teams that offer financial incentives for delivering apps ahead of schedule. With bonuses riding on getting a new app released quickly, security gets pushed to the final phase of a project and is rushed out fast.
The greater the push for speed, the more cracks and weaknesses in application security begin to emerge, however. Forrester’s recently published 2024 report on the state of application security reflects the growing threats of these growing cracks or gaps in application security, starting with software...