Key Findings from the 2024 State of Application Security Report

Originally published by CrowdStrike. As organizations shift their applications and operations to the cloud and increasingly drive revenues through software, cloud-native applications and APIs have emerged among the greatest areas of modern security risk. According to publicly available data, eight of the top 10 data breaches of 2023 were related to application attack surfaces. These eight breaches alone exposed almost 1.7 billion records, illustrating the potential for tremendous data loss if...

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