Developers and security professionals sacrifice security for speed

In order to meet short deployment cycles, 73 percent of security professionals and developers feel forced to compromise on security according to a new report. The study into DevSecOps from open source security and license management specialist WhiteSource, based on responses from over 560 developers in the US and Europe, finds that 20 percent of respondents describe their organizations' DevSecOps practices as 'mature', while 62 percent say they are improving, with only 18 percent being classed as 'immature'. The more mature an organization is in terms of its DevSecOps practices, the more AppSec tools it uses, though the results show… [Continue Reading]