Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigation Report, which is augmented with public sector incidentresponse information, suggested that approximately 43% of data breaches could be traced back to the compromise of a web application. The tools to combat this – from identifying vulnerabilities directly in source code to fuzzing web and mobile applications for weak input controls – have long been available, and the final piece of the puzzle, the process of applying application security, is starting to fall into place. Developers and information security personnel are entering a heretofore unseen level of collaborative use of application security testing (AST) tools. 

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