Application Security
We've curated 113 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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73% of organizations describe their security posture as 'advanced' or 'highly mature'.
95% of CISOs feel pressure to suppress or delay compliance-related security issues when business deadlines are at stake.
Companies with 81–100% AI-generated production code ship software with known security vulnerabilities at a 47% rate compared with 14% for companies with 1–20% AI-generated production code, making them nearly three times more likely.
75% of organizations knowingly deploy vulnerable code at some point.
More than 80% of developers do not apply application security continuously as code is written.
Within one year, the share of organizations knowingly shipping vulnerable code decreases from 81% to 75%.
Within one year, the proportion of companies with formal AI governance policies increases from 18% to 22%.
93% of organizations acknowledge a recent breach tied to their own applications.
Enterprise application exploitation surged 800% in 2025, making ERP, CRM, collaboration, and operational business platforms top targets.
96% of developers acknowledge having AI tooling integrated in their IDEs.
18% of developers apply security continuously as they write code.
70% of organizations have AI-powered components in production.
Mobile application attack rates progressed in a five-step trajectory of 55% → 57% → 65% → 82.7% → 87% over the five-year period from 2022 to 2026.
Mobile application attack rates climbed 58% between 2022 and 2026, rising from 55% to 87%.
Automotive applications faced a 91% attack rate in 2026.
iOS applications faced an 86% attack rate in 2026, compared to an 89% attack rate for Android applications.
87% of monitored client-facing mobile applications faced attacks in 2026, up from 55% in 2022.
Financial services applications faced a 91% attack rate in 2026, the highest recorded for any vertical.
67% of enterprises allocate a budget for securing business-built applications and AI agents, and they expect that budget to grow by 15% in the coming year.
Enterprises can track only 44% of the AI tools handling sensitive company and user data.