Managing Application Vulnerabilities (an early peek into improved controls for your code and data)

Published on October 4, 2016 by Michelle Pruitt

Post author By Michelle Pruitt
Post date October 4, 2016

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I’m working on an application risk management study/survey focusing on the importance of one vulnerability exploit in particular: debugger hacks against production apps. Our initial data set already includes responses from 100+ developers targeting cloud, mobile and desktop platforms from 15+ countries.

A Clear Material Application Risk for a Majority of Development Teams

58% report ongoing, sustained risk management development investments dedicated to mitigate the following material risks:

Financial theft
Intellectual property theft through application use
Intellectual property theft through application tampering and reverse engineering
Operational disruption
Regulatory and other compliance obligations
Unauthorized access to user and business data

Within the development teams that have taken affirmative action to mitigate these risks, 64% have identified unauthorized use of a debugger in production as a material vulnerability.

If you’re interested in getting the final numbers (and a deeper dive into both the risks and controls to effectively mitigate these risks), I expect to be publishing results in the next 1-2 weeks HERE (there’s already a link to a related white paper on this page for download too).