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Cybersecurity reports and statistics published by TuxCare
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Recent Statistics & Reports
33.33% of respondents reported using two versions of CentOS despite all stable versions now years into end of life.
5/27/2026•
Open SourceCentOSEOL
5.56% of respondents reported using all three versions of CentOS despite all stable versions now years into end of life.
5/27/2026•
Open SourceCentOSEOL
47.8% of surveyed enterprise open source users said their organization experienced a cybersecurity incident in the past 12 months.
5/27/2026•
Open SourceCybersecurity Incident
Open source using organizations with 1,001–10,000 employees were more than twice as likely to report an incident compared to those with fewer than 100 employees.
5/27/2026•
Open SourceCybersecurity Incident
Among the open-source users whose organizations reported a cybersecurity incident, 61.4% indicated that the incident occurred when a patch was available but had not been applied – a slight increase from 60.4% last year.
5/27/2026•
Open SourceCybersecurity IncidentVulnerabilities
Among respondents who identified at least one affected technology, vulnerabilities tied to reported open source incidents were distributed across infrastructure and middleware (51.9%), software development frameworks and libraries (50.0%), and databases and data technologies (48.1%).
5/27/2026•
Open SourceCybersecurity IncidentVulnerabilities
When open source using organizations were asked if they took steps to improve its patch and vulnerability management processes in the last 12 months, 68.8% said they increased automation.
5/27/2026•
Open SourceVulnerability ManagementPatching
When open source using organizations were asked if they took steps to improve its patch and vulnerability management processes in the last 12 months, 44.8% said they conducted security training.
5/27/2026•
Open SourceVulnerability ManagementPatching
When open source using organizations were asked if they took steps to improve its patch and vulnerability management processes in the last 12 months, 23.0% said they increased IT security staff.
5/27/2026•
Open SourceVulnerability ManagementPatching
When open source using organizations were asked if they took steps to improve its patch and vulnerability management processes in the last 12 months, 18.4% said they adopted AI/machine learning.
5/27/2026•
Open SourceVulnerability ManagementPatching
48.5% of surveyed organizations said there was no change in the last 12 months in the time required for patching a critical or high-priority Linux vulnerability once it was detected.
5/27/2026•
Open SourceVulnerability ManagementPatching
For of open-source users on enterprise teams, the greatest enemy of security is the uptime mandate.
5/27/2026•
Open SourceEnterpriseUptime
Roughly two-thirds (65.7%) of businesses spend 10 hours or less per month on Linux maintenance.
5/27/2026•
Open SourceLinux Maintenance
At least 43% of enterprises that use open-source technology report a mechanism in place to monitor whether those technologies are active, in maintenance, or EOL (7.5%do not track; 4.2% are unsure).
5/27/2026•
Open SourceEnterpriseEOL
Organizations relying on public project documentation are most strongly represented among those discovering EOL during regular dependency reviews (57.1%).
5/27/2026•
Open SourceEOL
Organizations in the 1,001–5,000 employee band are the most reactive, with 69.1% discovering EOL status only after something breaks or a vendor notifies them.
5/27/2026•
Open SourceEOL
Teams that surface EOL through dependency reviews (74.3%) or security scanning (69.7%) most often choose upgrades, suggesting planned remediation is more feasible when signals arrive earlier.
5/27/2026•
Open SourceEOLDependency Reviews
When EOL is identified through breakage or compatibility failures, reliance on ELS/vendor patching rises (59.7%) while upgrades are least common (18.2%).
5/27/2026•
Open SourceEOL
A majority of surveyed organizations report using fewer than 100 direct open-source projects or libraries in production, with the largest share (~35%) clustered between 25 and 99.
5/27/2026•
Open SourceOpen-Source ProjectsOpen-Source Libraries
41.67% of CentOS users report that they're migrating / planning to migrate.
5/27/2026•
Open SourceCentOSEOL
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