IT professionals with security as part of their role or responsibilities, including developers, AppSec professionals, DevOps engineers, CISOs, and experts.
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According to the source, survey participants came from the United States, United Kingdom, France, Finland, Germany, China, Singapore, and Japan.
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Responsibility for cybersecurity testing within firms worldwide 2023
In 2023, when asked about responsibility for security testing in their organization, ** percent of respondents worldwide stated that their internal security team was responsible for such testing. Developers and software engineers followed, mentioned by ** percent of respondents. On the other hand, just under ********* of respondents used external consultants for conducting security testing in their organization in 2023.
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