Application Security
We've curated 60 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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14.4% of AI agent configuration files grant arbitrary code execution permissions for Node.js.
Almost 20% of developers let AI automatically save changes to the project's main code repository without human review.
Use of risk-ranking methods to determine where LLM-generated code is safe to deploy increased by 12%.
Teams using attack intelligence to track emerging AI vulnerabilities increased by 10%.
Automated verification of infrastructure security surged by more than 50%.
14.5% of AI agent configuration files grant arbitrary code execution permissions for Python.
Streamlining of responsible vulnerability disclosure grew by more than 40%.
Establishment of standardized technology stacks rose by more than 40%.
Web applications are the most attacked service type at 61%, up from 41% in 2024; remote management protocols account for 15%.
Organizations classified as 'Exceptional' in AppSec maturity are 3.7 times more likely than 'Emerging' programs to reduce negative user experiences by more than 20%.
89% of organizations believe that cloud and application security must be fully integrated with the SOC.
Organizations classified as 'Exceptional' in AppSec maturity are 1.9 times less likely to experience a data breach than Emerging programs.
Organizations classified as 'Exceptional' in AppSec maturity are 3.6 times more likely to achieve a 20% or greater improvement in developer productivity compared to those in the 'Evolving' category.
Organizations classified as 'Exceptional' in AppSec maturity are 3.6 times more likely to report a 20% or greater improvement in application availability compared to the average.
66% of retailers plan to invest significantly in application security to prepare for evolving threats.
47% of respondents surveyed have expert-level skill in application security.
43% of respondents surveyed need significant skill improvement in application security.
96% of respondents indicated that Application security requires significant or moderate improvement.
58% of security teams report frequent false positives from application security scanners.
11% of security teams say application security false positives happen constantly.