{"id":4423,"date":"2021-09-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&#038;p=4423"},"modified":"2025-03-10T06:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T17:45:47","slug":"perimeterix-shadow-code-2021","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/portfolio\/perimeterix-shadow-code-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Code: The Hidden Risk to Your Website &#8211; commissioned by PerimeterX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Commissioned by<strong> PerimeterX<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Published <strong><em><strong>September 2021<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Executive summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>More than 99% of websites use third-party scripts, but only one in three can detect potential problems that could lead to digital skimming and Magecart attacks<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Osterman Research conducted a large survey to uncover the extent and impact of third-party scripts and open-source libraries that are used in web applications in organizations across industries. These scripts and libraries\u2014often added without approvals or security validation\u2014can introduce hidden risks into the organization and make it challenging to ensure data privacy and comply with various privacy regulations. Collectively referred to as \u201cShadow Code,\u201d these scripts and libraries are used for tasks like ad tracking, payments, customer reviews, chatbots, tag management, social media integration, or other helper libraries that simplify common functions. The goal of this survey was to understand the hidden risks that organizations face from the unmanaged use of Shadow Code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the third annual survey conducted by Osterman Research for PerimeterX on the use of Shadow Code in web applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research into the hidden risks that organizations face from the unmanaged use of Shadow Code on their websites. Commissioned by PerimeterX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384585,"featured_media":4427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"jetpack-portfolio-type":[712027439],"jetpack-portfolio-tag":[712027455,712027480],"class_list":["post-4423","jetpack-portfolio","type-jetpack-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","jetpack-portfolio-type-commissioned-research","jetpack-portfolio-tag-application-security","jetpack-portfolio-tag-software-supply-chain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/4423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/4423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4426,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/4423\/revisions\/4426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio-type?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio-tag?post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}