The number of applications scanned has also increased considerably, with developers currently testing more than 17 new applications per quarter, more than quadruple the amount scanned a decade before. The study, which looked at almost half a million apps, uncovered fresh information from a diverse range of major and mid-sized businesses, commercial software providers, and open-source organizations.
The world is more connected than ever, according to research, with 4.66 billion active internet users worldwide. According to Chris Wysopal, who is the CTO of Veracode, scanning software as a pre-production stage in the final phase of the software development lifecycle is no longer sufficient. Scanning using a variety of testing tools must happen continually as a completely integrated part of the process, much as software is now distributed regularly.