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95% of enterprise security leaders discovered high or critical vulnerabilities outside scheduled testing windows in the past year.

PublisherSynack
ReportThe State of Continuous Security Validation
Published21 July 2026
TopicsVulnerability Management, Security Testing, Enterprise Security, Continuous Monitoring

Published by Synack in The State of Continuous Security Validation , 21 July 2026. The figure is taken from the report as published; the full methodology is in the source.

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