96% of Applications Have an Average of 14 Vulnerabilities

Caught between the need to develop quickly and the lack of staff to test thoroughly, the result is buggy applications. Cenzic adds a third problem: hackers are increasingly turning their attention to exploiting applications rather than just defeating firewalls and antivirus. "While the majority of corporations have the important security building blocks, such as firewalls and intrusion protection systems needed for their security infrastructure," notes the report, "not enough organizations have comprehensive tools and practices in place for securing applications. The result is that hackers are increasingly focusing on and are succeeding with layer 7 attacks."