Application Security
We've curated 113 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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Nearly 90% of organizations allocate just 11–20% of their security budgets to application security.
11% of security teams say application security false positives happen constantly.
8 in 10 AppSec professionals are open to outside help.
60% of organizations say security issues are more likely to delay product launches than feature bugs.
51% of teams have fully addressed OWASP Top 10 threats, meaning nearly half remain exposed to foundational risks.
Just 1% of organizations invest more than 20% of their total security budget into AppSec.
25% of healthcare executives say they are likely to invest in application security.
In the Asia Pacific region, 33% of respondents report security is “always” a factor in purchasing decisions.
49% of CISOs say that buyers now factor application security (AppSec) into purchasing decisions.
In North America, only 8% of respondents report security is “always” a factor in purchasing decisions.
24% of respondents indicated that application security is “always” a factor in purchasing decisions.
In Europe, 58% of respondents report that security is “always” a factor in purchasing decisions.
62% of CISOs report AppSec metrics to their board.
56% of organisations say that most of their development teams are fully integrated with AppSec programmes.
In organisations developing software-based products, responsibility is split: 50% of organisations assign security responsibility to CISOs, while 43% move security oversight to development teams.
Only 39% of business operations run on secured applications, according to CISOs.
In nearly half of software-based product companies, security oversight has moved outside the CISO’s office entirely.
84% recognise the role of the AppSec leader as more important now than ever. More than 84% believe their role is more important now than it was a few years ago. This increased importance is linked to factors such as growing challenges from AI-generated code and open source software.
Among those who have encountered issues with AI-generated code, 92% reported insecure code as a concern.
84% said that supply chain vulnerabilities were the most significant threat to their enterprise applications.