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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37% of respondents expressed concern about lack of traceability or rollback options as a pain point for automation.
Only 11% of organizations reported finding more than ten vulnerabilities per machine per month in 2025.
Fourteen percent of organizations indicated that the security team is primarily responsible for remediating vulnerabilities and misconfigurations reported by security.
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.
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.
39% of respondents reported not using a vulnerability remediation tracking tool in 2025, relying instead on manual tracking using spreadsheets.
Ten percent of organizations reported that the DevOps/Product engineering team is primarily responsible for remediating vulnerabilities and misconfigurations reported by security.
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.
42% of respondents indicated that tickets don’t include enough remediation information.
44% of respondents indicated that vulnerabilities are reintroduced during the redeployment of software.
34% of respondents stated that vulnerabilities are being fixed in runtime, but not in the source code.
Between 6% and 10% of vulnerabilities recur according to 26% of respondents.
42% of respondents reported being 'slightly confident' in their organization's ability to remediate known vulnerabilities in a timely manner.
91% of organizations experience delays in vulnerability remediation.
Fewer than 1 in 5 organizations use structured prioritization models.
61% of organizations still measure success of vulnerability remediation by the number of vulnerabilities resolved.
85% of organizations believe their cross-team collaboration is strong.