In a recent Security webinar, How You Can Turn Security Training and Awareness into Action, Pieter Danhieux, Co-Founder and CEO of Secure Code Warrior, says there are 111 billion lines of code written by an estimated 22 million developers every year. “Building code is like building a house. If you do everything well, you end up with a beautiful, modern and secure house,” says Danhieux.
Recent headlines, such as the Imperva data breach, have proven that not writing secure code in security applications can land enterprises in a similar situation. “We’re making the same vulnerabilities over and over again,” says Danhieux. “We’re in a situation where we know all the vulnerabilities out there, and we need to break out of that dangerous cycle of writing insecure codes.”