Survey Surfaces Steady Gains in DevSecOps Adoption
devops.com, Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
A survey of more than 500 DevOps practitioners finds less than half (47%) of respondents work for organizations that regularly employ best DevSecOps practices.
Conducted by Techstrong Research, an arm of the TechStrong Group, which is also the parent organization of DevOps.com, the survey additionally finds 54% of respondents regularly practice code scanning for vulnerabilities during development, while 40% conduct security testing.
A full 59% of respondents said they are also making further investments in application security, with 19% describing their investment level as high. At the same time, 64% of respondents are investing in a code scanning tool, with 24% describing those investments as high. A total of 62% are investing in application programming interfaces (API) security, with 23% of respondents describing those investments as being high.