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Cybersecurity reports and statistics published by Black Duck

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Recent Statistics & Reports

89.3% of organizations are already using AI-powered coding assistants.

8/26/2025
AIAI coding assistant

39.4% of organizations produce SBOMs due to customer and partner requirements.

8/26/2025
AISBOMs

21.1% of companies lack confidence in their ability to prevent AI from introducing security vulnerabilities.

8/26/2025
AISecurity vulnerabilities

31.5% of organizations produce SBOMs due to industry regulations.

8/26/2025
AISBOMs

70.8% of organizations now produce Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs).

8/26/2025
AISBOMs

A decisive shift towards memory-safe languages has been adopted by 80.4% of companies.

8/26/2025
AI

18% of companies are affected by "Shadow AI".

8/26/2025
AIShadow AI

91% of audited applications contain outdated open source software components.

2/25/2025

33% had open source software components with no license or a customized license.

2/25/2025

The number of open source files in an average application has tripled over the last four years.

2/25/2025

64% of open source components were transitive dependencies.

2/25/2025

56% of all audited applications had license conflicts.

2/25/2025

86% of audited applications contained open source vulnerabilities, with 81% containing high- or critical-risk vulnerabilities.

2/25/2025

97% of all applications evaluated contained open source software.

2/25/2025

Nearly 30% of component license conflicts were caused by transitive dependencies.

2/25/2025

90% of the applications contain components more than 10 versions behind the most current version.

2/25/2025

There has been a 67% increase in the number of organisations performing software composition analysis (SCA) on code repositories.

1/1/2025
SCA

The number of organisations employing research groups to develop new attack methods has grown by 30%.

1/1/2025
Research groups

The number of organisations conducting adversarial tests (abuse cases) has doubled year-on-year.

1/1/2025
Adversarial tests

A 22% rise in the number of organizations creating software bills of materials (SBOMs) for deployed software has been observed.

1/1/2025
SBOMs

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