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Synopsys Soars on Test Findings

Synopsys Soars on Test Findings

Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) today published the "Software Vulnerability Snapshot: The 10 Most Common Web Application Vulnerabilities." The report examines the results of 4,300 security tests conducted on 2,700 software targets, including web applications, mobile applications, source code files, and networks systems (i.e., software or systems). The majority of the security tests were intrusive "black box" or "gray box" tests, including penetration testing, dynamic application security testing (DAST), and mobile application security testing (MAST), designed to probe running applications as a real-world attacker would.

Eighty-two percent of the test targets were web applications or systems, 13% were mobile applications, and the remainder were either source code or network systems/applications. Industries represented in the tests included software and internet, financial services, business services, manufacturing, consumer services, and healthcare.

In the 4,300 tests conducted, 95% of the targets were found to have some form of vulnerability (a 2% decrease from last year's findings). In all, 20% of the targets had high-risk vulnerabilities (a 10% decrease from last year), and 4.5% had critical vulnerabilities (a 1.5% decrease from last year).

The results demonstrate that the best approach to security testing is to utilize the wide spectrum of tools available including static analysis, dynamic analysis, and software composition analysis to help ensure an application or system is free from vulnerabilities.

SNPS shares leaped $4.46, or 1.4%, to $335.14.