New research by Outpost 24 exposes serious shortcomings in application security practices. Almost one-fourth (23%) of organizations do not test the security of applications before launching them.

Moreover, 31% of firms have tried to gain a competitive advantage by launching one or more applications despite being aware that the product(s) contained security flaws. Security is not part of the application development cycle in almost half of companies (44%), while only a small majority (56%) of respondents were certain that their organization tests the security of applications before launching them.

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