Average fix time for security flaws has increased by over 80 days in past five years.
The percentage of apps with high severity flaws has increased by 181 percent, with the average number of days to fix flaws has increasing by 47 percent.
According to Veracode’s State of Software Security, the average fix time for security flaws has increased from 171 days to 252 days over the past five years. This is a rise of 327 percent since the report’s first version 15 years ago.
To resolve this, the company recommended “a way to see what’s exploitable, reachable, and urgent to help you prioritise further” which can include visibility from an open and tool-agnostic application security posture management solution, and allocating a percentage of a security champion’s sprint capacity, and training them on how to make the fix or use AI (by including training time in sprint points, too).
“Modern software security is about remediating real risk which requires contextualising more,” the report said. “We’ve seen a lot of changes in 15 years of special SoSS, but the rapid proliferation of the attack surface is one that has required us to add to our view of maturity, and we hope you’ll do the same.”
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
