Vulnerability Remediation
We've curated 90 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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22% of respondents cited basic organizational resistance as a pain point for automation.
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.
36% of organizations indicated that their remediation processes are mostly automated with some manual steps.
34% of respondents believe that automated remediation integrated into a CI pipeline would speed up remediations.
50% of respondents identified the risk of breaking applications or dependencies as a pain point for automation.
28% of respondents indicated that automated ticket tracking instead of just 'fire and forget' would help them remediate significantly faster.
35% of respondent organizations are not currently using their CI/CD pipelines for remediation but want to in 2025.
4% of organizations took more than 15 days to remediate critical vulnerabilities in 2025.
60% of respondents reported that fewer than 5% of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations recurred within a month of remediation in 2025.
35% of respondents cited rollbacks of patches as a cause of vulnerability recurrence.
91% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that their organization is improving in its ability to remediate vulnerabilities in 2025, according to a survey of respondents.
1% of respondents reported being 'not at all confident' in their organization's ability to remediate known vulnerabilities in a timely manner.
Tool sprawl reduces confidence in remediation by 51% in 2025.
28% of organizations report that IT operations is primarily responsible for remediating vulnerabilities and misconfigurations reported by security.
42% of IT and security professionals reported working in both IT operations and security in 2025, according to a survey of 125 respondents
26% of respondents stated that the recurrence of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations was between 6% and 10% within a month of remediation in 2025.
52% report on their remediation efforts ‘quarterly’, ‘rarely’, or ‘never’ in 2025, while only 18% run weekly reports.
44% of security and IT operators indicated that auto-creating tickets with all relevant information would improve remediation in 2025.
18% of organizations surveyed reported tracking and reporting their remediation efforts on a weekly basis while 30% reported doing so monthly.