We've curated 3 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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66% of retailers plan to invest significantly in application security to prepare for evolving threats.
97% of organizations plan to unify their application security stack in the next 12 months.
47% of respondents surveyed have expert-level skill in application security.
43% of respondents surveyed need significant skill improvement in application security.
96% of respondents indicated that Application security requires significant or moderate improvement.
58% of security teams report frequent false positives from application security scanners.
11% of security teams say application security false positives happen constantly.
83% of organizations are considering outsourcing AppSec functions.
Just 1% of organizations invest more than 20% of their total security budget into AppSec.
62% of organizations knowingly release insecure code to meet delivery deadlines.
Nearly 90% of organizations allocate just 11–20% of their security budgets to application security.
60% of organizations say security issues are more likely to delay product launches than feature bugs.
57% of organizations wait until just before deployment to involve security.
36% of companies spend more on network security than AppSec.
Only 36% of organizations involve security at the planning stage of software development.
8 in 10 AppSec professionals are open to outside help.
62% of security professionals fear being fired following a breach.
17% of security professionals believe termination is likely after a breach.
51% of teams have fully addressed OWASP Top 10 threats, meaning nearly half remain exposed to foundational risks.
Application-layer attacks account for 43% of breaches.