New Report Highlights Surge in Application Vulnerabilities

Open Source Components Code Volume Drag Down Application Security

January 05, 2018
By Matt Howard

1 minute read time

Jai Vijayan provides a nice summary of the Imperva report, The State of Web Application Vulnerabilities in 2017.

Among the findings...

212% = increase in number of new Web application vulnerabilities disclosed in 2017 compared to 2016
14,082 = number of new vulnerabilities discovered in web applications in 2017 vs. 6,615 in 2016.
Security experts point to a handful of causes for the prevailing state of Web application security including:
- Increasing use by developers of open source components to build applications.
- Sheer volume of Web applications being developed and put into production.
- Growing adoption of DevOps, agile development, and CI/CD practices.

You can read the full report on the Imperva site.

Written by Matt Howard

Matt is a proven executive and entrepreneur with over 20 years experience developing high-growth software companies, at Sonatype, he leads corporate marketing, strategic partnering, and demand generation initiatives.