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Memory access vulnerabilities often occur in programming languages that are not memory safe.
In 2019, memory safety issues accounted for 76% of all Android vulnerabilities.
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This, Google says, is because vulnerabilities decay exponentially.
Developers were also unable to keep up with attackers' ability to exploit vulnerabilities in new and creative ways.
Googles fourth tactic is to therefore engage in high-assurance prevention and secure-by-design development.
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This cumulative cost reduction also has the added benefit of making developers more productive.