Monthly Research Round-up: 7 must-read cyber security reports in October

1. Veracode: Security risks in software are endemic

The State of Software Security Report found that 97 percent of Java applications contained at least one component with a known software vulnerability.

Apparently, the top quartile of companies fix nearly 70 percent more vulnerabilities than the average company.Veracode said that best practices, such as remediation coaching and eLearning could improve fix rates by up to 6 times.

Additionally, over half of web applications were affected by misconfigured secure communications or other security defences. For the full article click here 

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