81% of Organizations Knowingly Ship Vulnerable Code — While 98% of organizations experienced breaches due to vulnerable code, 81% knowingly shipped that code, often to meet business goals. “Under pressure to deliver, teams are treating patch-later practices as acceptable risk, embedding insecurity into the SDLC,” Checkmarx said in its Future of AppSec report. The report is based on a survey of 1,500 application security leaders. Half of the respondents already use AI security code assistants, and 34% admitted that more than 60% of their code is generated using artificial intelligence (AI) tools.