How Can the Government and Education Sector Improve Its Grades in Software Security Health?

Summary

The past year has been challenging for several industries, including the government and education sector. Government organizations had to pivot their operations to a digital model and schools were forced to decide between hybrid or remote learning programs for their students.

These digital transformations have made application security (AppSec) more important than ever. But, in Veracode’s recent State of Software Security v11 (SOSS) report, we found that compared to other industries, the government and education sector has the highest percentage of applications with security flaws, the second-slowest fix rate, and the second-longest median time to fix flaws.

In this podcast, Eric Wassenaar, the Senior Account Executive of SLED at Veracode and Jason Phillips, the Senior Solution Architect at Veracode examine SOSS findings pertaining to the government and education sector.

Listen to the podcast to hear insights on:

• Current AppSec trends that are impacting the government and education sector
• The common flaw types found in the sectors’ applications
• The steps that organizations can take to nurture their applications and improve their security health

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