It is estimated that, globally, 111 billion lines of code is produced every single year. In a rapidly digitising world, that number is only set to grow larger... along with the potential for more security issues. We are facing an uphill battle against a general AppSec skills shortage, the need for production at the speed of company innovation, and siloed teams not working to the same application security goals. With over 4 billion records stolen as a result of data breaches in 2019 alone, this has to change.
Security awareness programmes remain a powerful, yet underutilised tool to inspire organisations to stay security-focused and engage teams to do their part in the fight against vulnerable code.