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The State of Application Security Q4 2022

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Overview

With new threats rising daily, application security is the primary concern for many businesses today. It exposes sensitive information like customer data to the outside world. To benchmark your security program and stay on top of the emerging threat, we conducted an in-depth analysis of application security.

The report – “The State of Application Security Q4 2022” is based on a sample size of 1400+ applications.

Indusface
Indusface

Indusface is a leading application security SaaS company that secures critical Web, Mobile, and API applications of 5000+ global customers using its award-winning fully managed platform that integrates web application scanner, web application firewall, DDoS & BOT Mitigation, CDN, and threat intelligence engine.



Key Findings from the Study:
  • Over 829 million attacks were blocked
  • 61,713 open vulnerabilities in the applications, and yet these attacks were blocked
  • 30% of vulnerabilities have been open for more than 180 days
  • 60% of attacks were blocked using custom rules
  • On average, each customer deploys 48 custom rules
  • 32% of apps have had a DDoS attack in the last 60 days
  • 3.7 million bot attacks are blocked on 743 applications
  • Most of the bot attacks originated in Russia