DevOps and digital transformation are creating more insecure apps

For enterprises looking to build new applications as the cornerstone of their digital transformation initiatives, techniques like DevOps are undeniably attractive. But while they speed up development they also mean that nearly 70 percent of every application is made up of reusable components like third-party libraries, open source software. This means that applications can easily inherit the vulnerabilities in those components. A new report from application security provider WhiteHat Security finds the four most likely vulnerabilities in apps are information leakage (45 percent, up eight percent over last year's report), content spoofing (40 percent), cross site scripting (38 percent) and… [Continue Reading]