Dark Reading Opens The State of Application Security Survey

This article announces Dark Reading's new State of Application Security survey and summarizes key takeaways from the 2025 report, highlighting persistent AppSec challenges such as lack of secure-coding skills, SBOM adoption for vulnerability management, centralized dependency repositories, and the importance of embedding security tools into CI/CD and DevSecOps workflows; readers are invited to participate in the survey, with a small incentive, to help benchmark practices and identify emerging threats and solutions.