BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - September 14, 2010) - Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (
Aberdeen's research shows that top performers have successfully balanced both efficiency and effectiveness to maximize the returns on their annual investments in application security. On average, the top performers estimated that they identify and remediate 8 out of 9 application security vulnerabilities prior to the deployment phase of the software development lifecycle, as opposed to just 3 out of 4 for the lagging performers. One benefit of this is that the leading performers experienced nearly 3-times fewer actual application security-related incidents in the past 12 months compared to laggards, along with fewer costs associated with remediation. The top performers also enjoyed an impressive 5.8-times return on their annual investment in application security, which was 2-times higher than that of lagging performers.
"The process of developing secure software applications has many strong parallels with the principles of quality in manufacturing," commented Derek E. Brink, vice president and research fellow for IT Security, Aberdeen Group. "But based on current practices we still have far to go in having a clear definition of secure applications, and in shifting the means of achieving secure applications to prevention as opposed to inspection or additional layers of protection."
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