Veracode Secure Development Survey

Developers respond to application security trends

Published January 2017

Development teams face an onslaught of challenges from every direction as software development cycles accelerate and the responsibility for meeting operational requirements “shifts left” to developers.

Add to this the growing importance of application security (AppSec) and an increased pressure on organisations to comply with regulations and reduce business risk from the ever-present threat of cyberattacks.

Alongside these pressures, the DevOps model is disrupting software development and impacting development teams in ways both technical and cultural.