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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At 46% of companies, vulnerability remediation is a shared responsibility between security and IT operations teams.
40% of respondents reported 'too many siloed tools' as a significant pain point in vulnerability remediation.
40% of respondents indicated 'not enough visibility' as a significant pain point in vulnerability remediation.
52% of organizations surveyed reported their remediation efforts either quarterly, rarely, or never.
9% of respondents indicated that their organizations experienced a security incident due to a delay in vulnerability remediation.
11% of respondents reported that the recurrence of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations was between 11% and 30% within a month of remediation in 2025.
44% of respondents reported that the manual effort needed to find the owner of an artifact and fix it is one of the biggest pain points for remediating vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
91% of organizations experience delays in vulnerability remediation.
Nearly 40% of organizations still rely on manual workflows for most of their vulnerability remediation processes.
1 in 5 organizations take four or more days to fix critical vulnerabilities.
85% of organizations believe their cross-team collaboration is strong.
54% measure success of vulnerability remediation by fewer breaches.
91% of organizations experience delays in vulnerability remediation.
61% of organizations still measure success of vulnerability remediation by the number of vulnerabilities resolved.
49% measure success of vulnerability remediation by mean time to remediation.
Fewer than 1 in 5 organizations use structured prioritization models.
Since 2017, the median time to resolve serious vulnerabilities has decreased dramatically—from 112 days down to 37 days last year.
57% of organisations resolve at least 90% of their serious findings in pentests.
15% of organisations resolve 10% or less of their serious findings in pentests.
Larger organisations take over a month longer (61 days) than smaller ones (27 days) to resolve serious findings in pentests.