The Creeping Threat of Security Debt

Nearly half of all organizations have critical security debt–high-risk flaws in their applications that go unremediated for more than a year–and more than 70 percent of organizations have security debt overall, according to a new study on enterprise software security trends.

There are a number of factors that contribute to the existence of known security flaws in applications over the long term, not the least of which are the high volume of bugs published every year and the need to …

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