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We've curated 76 cybersecurity statistics about Application security to help you understand how safeguarding software from vulnerabilities and attacks is evolving in 2025. This includes best practices, emerging threats, and essential technologies to secure your applications effectively.

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49% of CISOs and AppSec executives are willing to replace SAST/DAST.

Rein Security2/22/2026
SASTDAST

58% of large AppSec teams (50 members or more) that use SCA cite the inability to verify if vulnerabilities are exploitable in production as a major pain point.

Rein Security2/22/2026
SCAAppSec Team

81% of CISOs and AppSec executives are willing to pivot to new MCP protection tools.

Rein Security2/22/2026
MCP Protection Tools

38% of small AppSec teams (1–10 members) that use SCA cite the inability to verify if vulnerabilities are exploitable in production as their biggest pain point.

Rein Security2/22/2026
SCAVulnerabilities

55% of CISOs and AppSec executives are willing to replace RASP.

Rein Security2/22/2026
RASP

52% of CISOs and AppSec executives are willing to replace SCA.

Rein Security2/22/2026
SCA

16% of CISOs and AppSec executives want to consolidate the AppSec toolchain into one platform.

Rein Security2/22/2026
Tool Consolidation

Malicious web application and API transactions rose 128% year over year.

Radware Ltd.2/22/2026
API SecurityMalicious Web App Transactions

Over 75% of security professionals do not have the real-time production insight necessary to validate risk and understand how their code behaves in real-world environments.

Rein Security2/22/2026
Runtime Visibility

72% of organizations experience at least one mobile app security incident in the past year.

Guardsquare2/22/2026
Mobile Security

More than half of developers are uncertain how to properly secure AI-written mobile applications.

Guardsquare2/22/2026
AIAI-Written Mobile Apps

13% of CISOs and AppSec executives use agent-based deployment.

Rein Security2/22/2026
Agent-Based Deployment

63% of mid-sized AppSec teams (11–50 members) that use SCA cite the inability to verify if vulnerabilities are exploitable in production as their biggest pain point.

Rein Security2/22/2026
SCAAppSec Team

62% of security professionals are blind to shadow or undocumented APIs.

Rein Security2/22/2026
APIsShadow APIs

91% of mobile app developers and security leaders prefer security that spans the entire software development lifecycle.

Guardsquare2/22/2026
DevSecOpsSoftware Development Lifecycle

88% of CISOs and AppSec executives are willing to replace API security solutions.

Rein Security2/22/2026
API Security

Almost 20% of developers let AI automatically save changes to the project's main code repository without human review.

UpGuard2/9/2026
Code IntegritySoftware Development

Establishment of standardized technology stacks rose by more than 40%.

Black Duck2/9/2026
Technology Stack

Streamlining of responsible vulnerability disclosure grew by more than 40%.

Black Duck2/9/2026
Vulnerability DisclosureRegulatory Compliance

14.4% of AI agent configuration files grant arbitrary code execution permissions for Node.js.

UpGuard2/9/2026
CybersecurityDeveloper Tools