The state of software security in 2018 is marginally improved over what it was in 2017, but there is still lots of room to go, according to the 2018 State of Software (SOSS) report from CA’s Veracode division. Among the high level findings in the report is that 69 percent of discovered flaws were remediated or mitigated by organizations, which is a 12 percent improvement over the 2017 report.  While organizations are patching more flaws than in prior years, Veracode found that over 85 percent of all scanned applications still had at least one vulnerability the first time they were scanned. The SOSS report is based on Veracode’s scanning of over two trillion lines of code across its customer base of 2,000 organizations.

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