According to research by Veracode, public sector applications tend to have more flaws than private sector applications. Researchers found that just under 82% of applications developed by public sector organizations had at least one security flaw detected in their most recent scan over the last 12 months, compared to 74% of private sector organizations.
Depending on the type of flaw tracked, public sector applications had a seven to 12 percent higher probability of having a flaw introduced in the last 12 months.