Over 80 percent of organizations knowingly ship vulnerable code

New research shows 81 percent of organizations knowingly ship vulnerable code, and 98 percent experienced a breach stemming from vulnerable code in the past year, that’s a sharp rise from 91 percent in 2024. The survey from Checkmarx, of more than 1,500 CISOs, AppSec managers and developers around the world, also shows that AI‑generated code is becoming mainstream, but governance is lagging. Half of respondents already use AI security code assistants and 34 percent admit that more than 60 percent of their code is AI‑generated. Yet only 18 percent have policies governing this use. The growing adoption of AI coding… [Continue Reading]