In 2025, network infrastructure elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerabilities surged 266%.

In 2025, network infrastructure critical vulnerabilities increased 235%.

In 2025, network infrastructure remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities rose 238%.

Routers account for one-third of the most critical vulnerabilities in organizational networks.

Routers and switches average nearly 32 vulnerabilities per device.

30% of healthcare leaders cite the complexity of integrating with multi-vendor network infrastructure across sites as a barrier to implementing microsegmentation.

Three DDoS attacks surpassed 1 Tbit/s in 2025.

77% of enterprise leaders say data sovereignty requirements heavily influence their choice of backbone provider.

Since 2023, network infrastructure, especially routers, has continued to outpace endpoints as the riskiest IT devices.