According to a 2024 survey of cybersecurity professionals, 43 percent of respondents worldwide considered data protection as their biggest application security concern. Threat detection and breach detection and securing cloud apps followed, with more than 40 percent of respondents mentioning them as their main application security concerns.
What are your biggest application security concerns?
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Cybersecurity Insiders. (April 15, 2024). What are your biggest application security concerns? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 16, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1463474/main-application-security-concerns-worldwide/
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Cybersecurity Insiders. (2024). What are your biggest application security concerns? . Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: May 16, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1463474/main-application-security-concerns-worldwide/
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