The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices are the biggest contributing factors to organizations expanding attack surfaces, according to a new report from Cisco AppDynamics. The report surveyed 1,150 IT professionals in organizations across a range of sectors and international markets to outline the current application security challenges impacting IT departments. Along with IoT and connected device growth, rapid cloud adoption, accelerated digital transformation, and new hybrid working models have also significantly expanded the attack surface. Microservice-based application architectures and DevOps methodologies are playing a notable role too, exposing applications to new vulnerabilities. These factors will affect the application security challenges businesses face in 2023, with 78% of respondents stating their organizations full application stack could be vulnerable to attack over the next 12 months. Issues such as lack of visibility into attack surfaces and vulnerabilities, difficulty prioritizing threats based on severity, impact, and business context, and challenges balancing speed, application performance and security, are leaving organizations in security limbo. To address these risks, organizations are exploring increased automation to detect and block security issues, as well as tailored security training to developers to help tackle risks. This involves replacing outdated security education with awareness training that is more engaging and relevant for developers to better impart the knowledge required to match the threat landscape and dynamic technology fundamentals of application security.
This Cyber News was published on www.csoonline.com. Publication date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:09:03 +0000