Software complexity is a real problem — and your AppSec must factor that in

The report explains how growing software complexity broadens the attack surface and strains AppSec by obscuring dependencies, encouraging uneven component hygiene, and complicating long-term maintenance; it advocates a comprehensive software supply chain security approach spanning the SDLC—pre-commit hooks, rigorous automated and human code reviews, testing left/center/right, final complex binary analysis, and periodic code efficiency reviews—to reduce technical debt, streamline architectures, and improve organizational security posture.