A practical AppSec maturity model: five stages, self-assessment included
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.
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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.
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.
Gartner named Application Security Posture Management a category in May 2023 — three years later, most RFPs still can't distinguish a real ASPM from a dashboard bolted onto old scanners.
Gartner projects over 40% of organizations will adopt Application Security Posture Management by 2026 — here's what it actually aggregates and how to judge if yours is working.
Gartner defined ASPM in May 2023 as a correlation layer, not a rip-and-replace — here's how to fold it into a toolchain you already run.
Only 17% of organizations can inventory 95%+ of their assets, and 69% have been breached through one they didn't know existed — start with the map, not the scanner.
CVE-2023-34362 sat in one internet-facing file-transfer server and still produced thousands of downstream breaches — attack surface mapping is what catches that server before Cl0p does.
A fail-the-build scanning pipeline is a few YAML lines away — but pin the Action wrong and you inherit its supply chain risk too.
Binary Authorization can block every unsigned container from reaching GKE or Cloud Run — but only if your pipeline is wired to sign images the moment they pass scanning.
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