When It Comes To App Development, 75% Of CISOs Are Concerned About Vulnerabilities

75 per cent of CISOs still worry that too many vulnerabilities are creeping into app production despite multi-layered security measures, yet just 37 per cent of firms have runtime vulnerability management capabilities.

CISOs confront more complexity than ever before, making it more important than ever for them to combine security with the sort of visibility needed to identify assaults and vulnerabilities in real time.

It turns out, according to Dynatrace‘s study, that even a multi-layered security approach can’t keep vulnerabilities out of apps. Vulnerability management has grown much more difficult in today’s world with multicloud settings, numerous programming languages, and open-source software.

Seventy-five per cent of the CISOs polled said that despite a multi-layered security approach, vulnerabilities are still entering production because of persistent coverage gaps. Despite this, just 37 per cent of firms have the capacity to address runtime security risks. Vulnerability identification becomes increasingly difficult due to the increased complexity of cloud-native delivery processes.

Recently discovered serious vulnerabilities, such as Log4Shell, show the need for new AlSecDevOps approaches that integrate security with observability. More than ever, security measures must be bolstered with the type of visibility that enables the discovery of runtime vulnerabilities as well as the repelling of real-time assaults.

It is critical to closing the gap in current security solutions’ capabilities that automated, continuous runtime vulnerability management be implemented. However, just a quarter of security teams have access to up-to-the-minute information on every programme and code library currently in use in production. The results are based on a worldwide poll of 1,300 CISOs done by Coleman Parkes and commissioned by Dynatrace in April 2022. As part of the study, we surveyed a total of 2,000 people from a wide range of countries: 200 from the United States; 100 from France; 100 from Germany; 100 Spain; 50 from Italy; and 50 from Singapore, Malaysia, Brazil, and Mexico.