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Your AppSec Tools Find 15% of Defects, Not 95% (Chris Near)
The application security industry spent years believing its tools found roughly 95 percent of the defects in code. Chris Near studied 34 million findings across 57 tools and put the real number closer to 15 or 20 percent.
In this episode of We Built It Because We Had To, host Jonathan W. Buckley is joined by Chris Near, founder of CyberSagacity, the company he built to sit on top of application security tooling as an intelligence layer rather than as another scanner. Chris traces where the 95 percent number came from: a pre-published artificial test suite that vendors could design against…
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