The AppSec Program Spring-Cleaning Checklist
The xz-utils backdoor sat in a maintainer's commits for over two years before a Postgres developer's slow SSH login exposed it in March 2024. Most AppSec programs never audit for that kind of drift.
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The xz-utils backdoor sat in a maintainer's commits for over two years before a Postgres developer's slow SSH login exposed it in March 2024. Most AppSec programs never audit for that kind of drift.
OWASP SAMM v2 scores 15 practices on a 0–3 scale; BSIMM15 measured 121 firms and found SCA adoption up 67%. Here's a five-stage model to self-assess against.
Gartner coined the ASPM term in May 2023 and projects over 40% of organizations building software will adopt it by 2026 — here is what it actually does.
NIST's NICE Framework sorts cybersecurity work into 7 categories and 52 work roles — most security teams have never mapped a single job description to it.
NYU found 40% of Copilot-generated code contained exploitable flaws; Samsung banned ChatGPT after three leaks in under 20 days. The productivity math still isn't simple.
OWASP's 2025 LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS both treat adversarial testing and posture scanning as separate disciplines — most AI programs still run only one.
GitHub says Copilot Autofix resolves two-thirds of flagged vulnerabilities with little editing; Snyk claims 80% fix accuracy. Here's the pipeline behind both numbers.
One 2025 benchmark found an LLM filter cut Semgrep's false positives by 88.6% — while a separate study found GPT-4 alone flagging vulnerabilities was wrong more often than right.
A 2021 NYU study found roughly 40% of Copilot completions on security-relevant prompts contained exploitable flaws. Here's a field guide to catching them.
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