Successful Canadian software adopters typically complete vendor selection in about three months, while disappointed buyers take four to five months.

Approximately 50% of satisfied Canadian software adopters planned their rollout stages in advance, while only 27% of disappointed buyers did the same.

89% of Canadian software buyers who experienced implementation disruptions later regretted their decision in 2026.

49% of successful Canadian software buyers paid close attention to a vendor’s history of breaches or attacks before purchase.

32% of successful Canadian software buyers checked encryption standards of vendors before purchase.

99% of satisfied Canadian software buyers narrowed their choices to five vendors or fewer, compared to 90% of disappointed buyers.

41% of successful Canadian software buyers considered patching and update practices before purchase.

40% of Canadian software buyers reported satisfaction with their purchase in 2026.

62% of satisfied Canadian software buyers expect to increase their software spend next year, compared to 79% of disappointed buyers.

38% of successful Canadian software buyers evaluated a vendor's reputation for incident response before purchase.

Software accounts for roughly 30% of security budgets, making it the second-largest line item after staff and compensation.

SecOps solutions represent the largest share of software budgets at 16%.

Developer teams remediate, on average, 6 application vulnerabilities per month.

It takes an average of 84 days to patch even the most critical flaws in applications.

The average application is targeted by attackers once every 3 minutes.

The average application is exposed to 81 confirmed, viable attacks each month that evade other defences

Attackers exploit new application vulnerabilities in just 5 days.

On average, applications contain 30 serious vulnerabilities.

Applications face an average of 17 new application vulnerabilities per month.

70% of respondents admitted that when a fix is not available for a vulnerability, they either don’t have or are not sure if they have a remediation plan in place