A shocking amount of companies are knowingly shipping insecure code - and it might be hard to recover - Checkmarx

A shocking amount of companies are knowingly shipping insecure code – and it might be hard to recover

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August 18, 2025

“A study of 1,500 CISOs, AppSec Managers and developers conducted by Checkmarx has claimed four in five (81%) companies knowingly ship vulnerable code, putting them and their users at risk of attack. An estimated one in two respondents already use AI security code assistance, with around one-third (34%) admitting that more than 60% of their code is AI-generated – which can often contain known vulnerabilities by default. An overwhelming majority (98%) have experienced a breach due to vulnerable code in the past year, and yet they continue to ship vulnerable code without implementing the right protective measures.”

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