Vulnerability Remediation
We've curated 99 cybersecurity statistics about Vulnerability Remediation to help you understand how organizations are identifying and fixing security flaws in their systems, ensuring stronger defenses against evolving threats in 2025.
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4% of organizations took more than 15 days to remediate critical vulnerabilities in 2025.
Fewer than 10% of respondents reported being 'very confident' in their ability to remediate known vulnerabilities in a timely manner in 2025, while 43% reported being either 'slightly confident' or 'not confident at all'.
54% of organizations with SLAs define their target MTTR as less than 24 hours.
Only 20% of organizations with SLAs consistently meet their MTTR SLA.
40% of respondent organizations have set Mean Time to Remediation (MTTR) SLAs.
26% of organizations have a one-to-three day SLA for MTTR.
Only 2% of organizations reported that their remediation processes are fully automated.
44% of respondents reported that lack of visibility made it hard to know what was remediated, when, and why.
31% of respondents believe that instantly seeing the owner of an artifact would help them remediate significantly faster.
40% of respondents stated that better prioritization would help them remediate significantly faster.
44% of respondents indicated that auto-creating tickets with all relevant info included would help them remediate significantly faster in 2025.
24% of respondents believe that more ownership from DevOps/platform engineers would help them remediate significantly faster in 2025.
Almost 50% of organizations reported using more than five security tools in 2025.
22% of respondents cited basic organizational resistance as a pain point for automation.
27% of respondents reported using the Atlassian Suite/JIRA for tracking vulnerability remediation.
53% of security and IT teams experiencing tool sprawl reported low confidence in remediation in 2025, compared to 35% who do not experience tool sprawl.
33% of respondents reported using manual processes, such as spreadsheets, for tracking vulnerability remediation marking a significant reliance on non-automated methods.
26% of respondents stated that the recurrence of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations was between 6% and 10% within a month of remediation in 2025.
Two-thirds of respondent organizations lack an automated method for reporting on SLAs.
29% of respondents indicated that lack of clean integration with existing CI/CD and ITSM tools was a concern in 2025.