Digital Transformation and the Shadow Code Risk

Digital Transformation and the Shadow Code Risk

Perimeterx
Published by: Research Desk Released: Sep 08, 2021

Businesses across all industries are accelerating their digital transformation as consumer behavior changes and typical daily interactions are increasingly moving online. Delivering a secure, optimized digital experience has become a key priority to support this emerging trend. Modern web and mobile applications shift logic to the client side to improve performance and enrich the user’s digital experience. This shift means that a significant portion of the application that now runs on your users’ browsers and mobile devices relies on JavaScript code. According to httparchive.org, between November 2010 and July 2020 client-side JavaScript code has increased over 411% for desktop and over 700% for mobile applications.