Veracode Research Reveals Government Applications at Heightened Risk of Cyber Attack: 59% Have Flaws Left Unfixed for More than a Year
Veracode , a global leader in application risk management, today released research revealing applications developed by public sector organizations have more security debt than those created by the private sector.
- Veracode , a global leader in application risk management, today released research revealing applications developed by public sector organizations have more security debt than those created by the private sector.
- View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240529282258/en/
Figure 2: Security Debt in Public Sector Applications (Graphic: Business Wire)
“Decades of accumulated security debt in unpatched software and poor security configurations, are in the applications that serve our government,” said Chris Eng, Chief Research Officer at Veracode. - In response, the federal government is enforcing a flurry of initiatives to strengthen cybersecurity, including efforts to reduce risk in the applications that serve the government.
- The analysis further shows security debt in the public sector is primarily concentrated in older, larger applications (22 percent).