Applications are where business happens these days, with enterprises increasingly deploying apps and services in the cloud to keep pace with the digital economy. However, current vulnerability management techniques don’t cover the technologies used in modern applications, which often leads to vulnerabilities going unnoticed and unpatched.
Applications have become the top cyberattack vector, surpassing email in 2021, and now account for about 70% of all security incidents, according to Verizon’s2022 Data Breach Investigations Report. Yet AppSec vulnerabilities appear only sporadically on the top common vulnerability and exposure (CVE) lists. The reason is that AppSec vulnerabilities mostly result from issues that CVE lists don’t cover, such as misconfigurations, combinations of various tools, or developer mistakes.