In 2022, the most popular approaches to identifying vulnerabilities in codes was to find them when running a Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tool or when using a Software Composition Analysis (SCA) service. At the same time, 22 percent of respondents stated that they found them though an external security audit.
How do you find out about vulnerabilities in your code?
OSS maintainers and security subject matter experts
Supplementary notes
* Sample size for OSS security perspectives was 539 participants.
Sample size for OSS best practices for secure software development was 72 participants.
Sample size for OSS security was 433 participants.
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