We recently released volume 11 of our annual State of Software Security (SOSS) report, which analyzes the security activity and history of applications Veracode scanned during a one-year period. Giving us a view of the full lifecycle of applications, that data tells us which languages and vulnerabilities to keep an eye on, and how factors like scanning frequency can impact your remediation time.

In late October, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) co-authored an advisory report on the latest tactics used by cybercriminals to target the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector. In the report, CISA, FBI, and HHS noted the discovery of, “…credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S.

When conducting research for this year’s State of Software Security report, we looked at how “nature” and “nurture” contribute to the time it takes to close out a security flaw. For the “nature” side, we looked at attributes that we cannot change, like application size or age. For “nurture,” we looked at application attributes we can change, like security scan frequency and cadence.