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The State of Application Security

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Overview

Attackers increasingly target business applications. Your ability to defend your apps against these attacks is crucial to your operations. To explore the state of application security, we conducted an in-depth analysis.

The report – “The State of Application Security,” is based on analyzing 1200+ websites and 12 billion+ requests on the AppTrana network from August 2022 – September 2022.

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 418 million attacks were blocked
  • 40,756 open vulnerabilities in applications and yet these attacks were blocked
  • 30% of vulnerabilities have been open for more than 180 days
  • 234 websites experienced DDoS attacks
  • AppTrana detected the DDoS attempts from the UK and Ukraine
  • 695 websites experienced a bot attack
  • Most of the bot attacks originated from Russia