ESG Survey Report: Modernizing Application Security to Scale for Cloud-Native Development

Application development is changing and evolving rapidly, and attacker tactics are evolving along with it. Application security needs to adapt as well, but is struggling to keep up, both with the pace and change of development, and with the attackers.

In fact, a recent Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) survey of 350 IT and cybersecurity professionals and application developers found that the top 3 challenges for AppSec teams supporting cloud-native dev processes include:

  • Understanding and managing risk related to use of GenAI
  • Measuring and improving AppSec program effectiveness
  • Understanding developer environments and assets to effectively manage security

Read this eBook to get the full survey results and analysis and to learn:

  • Development trends driving the need to modernize application security programs
  • Top concerns, challenges, and incidents that application security teams have faced with their current tools
  • The investment priorities of application security teams
  • Strategies application security teams are leveraging to help their teams grow and succeed

Enterprise Strategy Group, a division of TechTarget, Inc. Research Report, Modernizing Application Security to Scale for Cloud-Native Development, August 2024.

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