Report: High vulnerability rates in government applications
The 13th edition of the State of Software Security Report, publishes the trends in the software landscape and how security practices are evolving. Some of the results are worrying: 82 percent of applications developed in the public sector had at least one security vulnerability discovered, compared to 74 percent in private companies. The State of Software Security study shows that applications for the public sector tend to have more security vulnerabilities than applications for the private sector. The higher number of errors and vulnerabilities in applications correlates with an increased security risk. The study was carried out against the background...