A typical large financial organization has a pile of code as large as 2,000 copies of the entire 73,954 pages in the US Federal Tax Code — almost 10 billion lines of code. The typical enterprise web application has an eye-opening 22.4 serious vulnerabilities, according to experts at Aspect Security. We simply have to find some new technologies and techniques for gaining assurance at DevOps speed and portfolio scale. We can instrument the entire software development process — design, development, test, and even production — so that applications continuously test themselves.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/the-staggering-complexity-of-application-security