By exposing developers to security as part of the coding process, they can learn more about creating secure code and so reduce the time needed for testing.
Recent research claims that a quarter of third party apps are high risk and although they’re banned in some organisations, policing that ban is difficult. Third party apps and especially open-source ones are great and play a very important task in today’s development practices, however, in order to ensure they are not putting your applications at risk, developers need to learn how to code securely.
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