Checkmarx released its "
Global CISO Survey: The Growing Impact of AppSec on Business"
report, based on survey results from 200 CISOs and other senior
security executives worldwide in March of this year. The survey
uncovered a trend in which application security is becoming increasingly
important in closing new business, with CISOs called upon to
demonstrate the security of their business' digital products and
services and to differentiate and grow their businesses, resulting in
more opportunities to shape organizational processes.
Among the key findings of the study are these:
- 84% of CISOs say that they are called into sales engagements related
to closing sales of their company's products and services, highlighting
the connection between AppSec and business growth
- 96% of CISOs say their prospects consider the level of application
security of their organizations when making purchase decisions
- 77% of CISOs estimate that they're running at least half of their
companies' businesses on applications for which internal teams must
ensure security
"As today's enterprise makes great strides with digital
transformation initiatives and as the applications undergirding the
digital business have grown ever more complex, CISOs have a critical
need for the consolidation of security alerts, reports and dashboards
for better risk management and prioritizing their developers'
remediation tasks," said Checkmarx CEO Sandeep Johri.
"The CISOs we work with are increasingly called to demonstrate the
security of their businesses' products and services in sales
engagements, and in board discussions they're presented with more
opportunities to shape organizational processes. These trends and their
needs are driving the ongoing innovation and increasing openness and
consolidation of the cloud-native Checkmarx One Application Security
Platform."
The study shows that the banking and financial services
industry encounters this request more often than other industries. For
example, 50% of CISOs in the banking and financial industry said AppSec
is strongly considered in purchasing decisions, compared to 24% in the
industrial and manufacturing industry. However, across all industries,
especially industrial and manufacturing, the number of prospects wanting
to know the level of application security prior to purchase is growing.
To review the report,
visit this page.