Nearly 63% of organizations require between one and three days to remediate identified risks.

Midmarket organizations average 56 days to remove exposures, nearly four times slower than smaller enterprises.

It takes nearly a week to contain and remediate a compromised AI agent.

Small organizations remediate vulnerabilities fastest, averaging 14–18 days to fix exposures.

Banks remediate exposures in 11 days on average.

Automotive and pharmaceutical sectors average 43 days to remediate exposures.

Retail firms average 10 days to remediate exposures.

The insurance sector requires nearly 50 days to remediate exposures.

Financial service organizations outside of banking require 24 days to remediate exposures.

Organizations that succeed in integrating cybersecurity tools report 40% faster threat remediation and far more comprehensive visibility.

When asked what IT/cybersecurity use cases are being pursued with gen AI, 55% of respondents said incident response and remediation recommendations.

47% of companies use mean time to remediate as a cybersecurity metric.

Open-source flaws account for over 82% of critical security debt at financial firms, despite third-party code representing only 17% of total security debt.

Top-performing BFSI enterprises remediate over 9% of open flaws monthly, while lagging organizations have security debt in 85% or more of their applications.

66% of respondents noted quicker remediation as a moderate to transformative benefit of a unified approach for threat detection and response

49% measure success of vulnerability remediation by mean time to remediation.

28.3% of organisations are tracking mean time to remediate as a metric.

NodeZero exploited 229 known vulnerabilities nearly 100,000 times in customer environments, demonstrating that many organizations struggle to remediate even widely recognized threats.

Approximately 70% of cloud AI workloads contain at least one unremediated vulnerability