80% of breaches occur at the application layer. According to the Ponemon Institute 2014 Cost of Cyber Crime report, the most costly attacks are those caused by the denial of services, web-based attacks and malicious insiders. These account for 50% of all annual cyber crime costs per year.
Jason Feiman, Gartner Analyst, says "applications can be better protected when they possess self-protection capabilities built into their runtime environments, which have full insight into application logic, configuration, and data and event flows"
The trick to getting ahead of the bad guy is reducing your software vulnerabilities. Find out what seven steps you can take to secure your software.
