A new report published today by European technology analysis group, Quocirca, based on a survey of 250 C Level executives in UK, Germany and the UK suggests that 90% of organisations are outsourcing more than 40% of their code. Other findings in the survey are:
• 78% of organisations state that software development is business critical for them yet
• at the same time 60% of companies that outsource the coding of their critical applications do not demand that security is built into their applications.
Matt Moynahan, CEO of Veracode, responds to this survey by highlighting the need for application security testing of code to become mandatory:
