VP Application Security
Salary surveys & compensation benchmarks
2 compensation survey reports publish salary benchmarks for VP Application Security. Compare what each vendor covers and pick the right one for your organization.
Role summary
Responsible for providing strategic leadership and oversight for the organization’s application security engineering programs and secure software development practices. Establishes the vision, strategy, and governance for integrating security controls throughout the software development lifecycle, including secure architecture design, automated security testing, and vulnerability management within development pipelines. Oversees teams responsible for application security engineering, security tooling integration, and secure development frameworks to ensure applications and APIs are designed, built, and deployed in accordance with enterprise cybersecurity standards and regulatory requirements. Works with executive leaders across software engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, and cybersecurity to ensure security is embedded within development processes and technology platforms. Typically requires extensive leadership experience in application security, cybersecurity engineering, or secure software development and an advanced degree in computer science, cybersecurity, information security, or a related technical discipline.
Job summary sourced from the Empsight benchmark job library.
Reports covering VP Application Security
VP Application Security salary survey FAQ
- Which compensation surveys cover VP Application Security pay?
- 2 surveys publish VP Application Security benchmarks, including data from Empsight. The full list is on this page; click into any one for scope, methodology, and pricing.
- How does VP Application Security pay vary by industry and geography?
- Compensation for VP Application Security varies by industry, region, company size, and revenue. Most surveys above publish cuts on those dimensions. Industry-specific surveys (healthcare, tech, financial services, etc.) typically report meaningfully different ranges than cross-industry surveys for the same role.
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