It’s the same story, but a different year for application security as a new report today shows that for the fifth year running the number of reported software vulnerabilities broke an all-time record. According to the report from Risk Based Security, which counted vulnerabilities catalogued on the firm’s VulnDB intelligence platform, 2016 tallied 15,000 new vulnerabilities disclosed.
Compared to 2011, this represents an increase of more than 85% in vulnerabilities disclosed annually.
