Vulnerability Remediation
We've curated 89 cybersecurity statistics about Vulnerability Remediation to help you understand how organizations are identifying and fixing security flaws in their systems, ensuring stronger defenses against evolving threats in 2025.
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Between 6% and 10% of vulnerabilities recur according to 26% of respondents.
42% of respondents indicated that tickets don’t include enough remediation information.
44% of respondents indicated that vulnerabilities are reintroduced during the redeployment of software.
34% of respondents stated that vulnerabilities are being fixed in runtime, but not in the source code.
42% of respondents reported being 'slightly confident' in their organization's ability to remediate known vulnerabilities in a timely manner.
Fewer than 10% of respondents reported being 'very confident' in their ability to remediate known vulnerabilities in a timely manner in 2025, while 43% reported being either 'slightly confident' or 'not confident at all'.
54% of organizations with SLAs define their target MTTR as less than 24 hours.
Only 20% of organizations with SLAs consistently meet their MTTR SLA.
40% of respondent organizations have set Mean Time to Remediation (MTTR) SLAs.
26% of organizations have a one-to-three day SLA for MTTR.
Only 2% of organizations reported that their remediation processes are fully automated.
44% of respondents reported that lack of visibility made it hard to know what was remediated, when, and why.
40% of organizations stated that their remediation processes are manual and ad-hoc in 2025.
31% of respondents believe that instantly seeing the owner of an artifact would help them remediate significantly faster.
40% of respondents stated that better prioritization would help them remediate significantly faster.
44% of respondents indicated that auto-creating tickets with all relevant info included would help them remediate significantly faster in 2025.
24% of respondents believe that more ownership from DevOps/platform engineers would help them remediate significantly faster in 2025.
22% of respondents cited basic organizational resistance as a pain point for automation.
Two-thirds of respondent organizations lack an automated method for reporting on SLAs.
29% of respondents indicated that lack of clean integration with existing CI/CD and ITSM tools was a concern in 2025.