Developers get more confident in security but are still spending too much time on it

New research shows increasing confidence among developers at large organizations with regards to knowledge gained from security training, but they are still spending a considerable amount of time on security-related tasks. The study from Checkmarx looks at the current practices of development teams in large enterprises as they work toward more mature states of development, security and operations (DevSecOps). It finds 21 percent of developers surveyed say that security is their top priority when coding. 99.6 percent of developers have access to security training and of those, 90 percent rank the effectiveness of the training they receive as medium or… [Continue Reading]