A study by Fastly and ESG revealed growing concerns around adequately securing the rapidly rising number of mission-critical cloud services and API-centric applications. Outdated offerings, false positives, and ineffective blocking are among the main causes driving this global concern. Security is becoming more complex and costly as organizations are required to protect traditional architectures, in addition to new architectures and cloud environments. Security professionals have become frustrated with the complex and siloed nature of traditional application security solutions that fail to address these issues.
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/07/19/ineffective-application-security-tools/