Application Security
We've curated 76 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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49% of CISOs and AppSec executives are willing to replace SAST/DAST.
58% of large AppSec teams (50 members or more) that use SCA cite the inability to verify if vulnerabilities are exploitable in production as a major pain point.
81% of CISOs and AppSec executives are willing to pivot to new MCP protection tools.
38% of small AppSec teams (1–10 members) that use SCA cite the inability to verify if vulnerabilities are exploitable in production as their biggest pain point.
55% of CISOs and AppSec executives are willing to replace RASP.
52% of CISOs and AppSec executives are willing to replace SCA.
16% of CISOs and AppSec executives want to consolidate the AppSec toolchain into one platform.
Over 75% of security professionals do not have the real-time production insight necessary to validate risk and understand how their code behaves in real-world environments.
91% of mobile app developers and security leaders prefer security that spans the entire software development lifecycle.
Malicious web application and API transactions rose 128% year over year.
More than half of developers are uncertain how to properly secure AI-written mobile applications.
13% of CISOs and AppSec executives use agent-based deployment.
63% of mid-sized AppSec teams (11–50 members) that use SCA cite the inability to verify if vulnerabilities are exploitable in production as their biggest pain point.
62% of security professionals are blind to shadow or undocumented APIs.
72% of organizations experience at least one mobile app security incident in the past year.
88% of CISOs and AppSec executives are willing to replace API security solutions.
Almost 20% of developers let AI automatically save changes to the project's main code repository without human review.
Establishment of standardized technology stacks rose by more than 40%.
Streamlining of responsible vulnerability disclosure grew by more than 40%.
14.4% of AI agent configuration files grant arbitrary code execution permissions for Node.js.