ISMG Announces Application Security Survey Results Executive Summary. 57% of respondents say there are somewhat or very confident in their own applications. 81% are only somewhat or not at all confident in applications developed or managed by third-party service providers. This faith erodes even further with large institutions ($2 billion or more in assets under management) 91% of large institutions only somewhat/not at all are confident in in-house developed apps. The survey, administered electronically in August drew more than 100 responses from financial institutions of all sizes.”]