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23.8.2022 14:21:12 CEST | Business Wire | Press release
Veracode , a leading global provider of application security testing solutions, today released data revealing that the financial services industry ranks among the best for overall flaw percentage when compared to other industries, but has one of the lowest fix rates for software security flaws. The sector also falls to the middle of the pack for high-severity flaws, with 18 percent of applications containing a serious vulnerability, suggesting financial firms should prioritize identifying and remediating the flaws that matter most.
The findings were outlined in the company’s annual State of Software Security report v12, which analyzed 20 million scans across half a million applications in the financial, technology, manufacturing, retail, healthcare and government sectors. Across the six industries, the financial sector has the second-lowest proportion of applications containing security flaws, at 73 percent. In last year’s report, the industry boasted the lowest number of software security flaws across all sectors but has been overtaken by manufacturing in this year’s study. Despite having fewer flaws overall, the financial services sector comes joint last with technology and government for the lowest proportion of flaws that are fixed.
“One of the advantages of serving the software development community for so many years is that Veracode can see changes in development practices across industries over time. We found that while financial services applications have fewer security flaws than last year, the sector lags behind other industries when it comes to fix rate. Our research showed that security training can significantly improve remediation speeds, and that companies whose development teams had completed hands-on training using real-life applications fixed flaws 35 percent faster than those without such training,” said Chris Eng, Chief Research Officer at Veracode.
Securing the Global Software Supply Chain
While there is undoubtedly still room for progress in terms of both flaw prevalence and remediation rates, when financial services organizations do fix vulnerabilities, they move at a quicker pace than most.
Eng said, “The U.S. Executive Order on Cybersecurity, alongside mandates on security controls regarding open-source usage, such as GDPR and the New York Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulations, has highlighted the importance of securing the software supply chain. Being a highly regulated sector may go some way to explain the financial industry’s relative speed in addressing vulnerable libraries discovered through software composition analysis (SCA).”
Flaws in third-party libraries found through SCA tend to stick around longer for all industries, with 30 percent still unresolved after two years. When it comes to addressing open-source vulnerabilities, however, the finance sector remediates at the same pace as other industries for the first year but then quickens its pace to gain a month on the cross-industry average.
Although the finance sector outperforms most other industries in fix times for flaws discovered by dynamic, SCA, and static, the study found there is still ample room for continued improvement when looking at the number of days it takes to resolve 50 percent of flaws—116 days for dynamic analysis, 385 days for SCA, and 288 days for static analysis. With third-party components comprising as much as 90 percent* of an application’s codebase, scanning early and often using a combination of testing types reduces unplanned emergency remediation work and mitigates the risk of introducing third-party security flaws into software.
The Veracode State of Software Security v12 financial services snapshot is available to download here and a video of the findings is available to watch here .
* The Linux Foundation Statista, Joseph Perlow, “A Summary of Census II: Open Source Software Application Libraries the World Depends On”: https://www.statista.com/statistics/617136/digital-population-worldwide/ , March 7, 2022
About the State of Software Security Report
The Veracode State of Software Security (SoSS) v12 analyzed the full historical data from Veracode services and customers. This accounts for a total of more than half a million applications (592,720) that used all scan types, more than a million dynamic analysis scans (1,034,855), more than five million static analysis scans (5,137,882) and more than 18 million software composition analysis scans (18,473,203). All those scans produced 42 million raw static findings, 3.5 million raw dynamic findings, and six million raw SCA findings.
The data represents large and small companies, commercial software suppliers, software outsourcers, and open-source projects. In most analyses, an application was counted only once, even if it was submitted multiple times as vulnerabilities were remediated, and new versions uploaded.
About Veracode
Veracode is a leading AppSec partner for creating secure software, reducing the risk of security breach, and increasing security and development teams’ productivity. As a result, companies using Veracode can move their business, and the world, forward. With its combination of process automation, integrations, speed, and responsiveness, Veracode helps companies get accurate and reliable results to focus their efforts on fixing, not just finding, potential vulnerabilities. Learn more at www.veracode.com , on the Veracode blog and on Twitter .
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