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Cybersecurity reports and statistics published by Salt Security

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Recent Statistics & Reports

51% of organizations are still in planning or basic stages of API security maturity.

10/8/2025
APIAPI security maturity

29% of organizations identified account misuse or other fraud as the most common API security problem.

10/8/2025
APIAccount misuseFraud

12% of organizations cited a lack of investment in pre-production security for their API programs.

10/8/2025
API

26% of organizations are adopting governance frameworks to establish rules for AI use in development.

10/8/2025
APIGovernanceAI

Only 3% of organizations indicated they do not know how many APIs they are responsible for.

10/8/2025
API

33% of security leaders have suffered an API incident in the past year.

10/8/2025
APIAPI incident

35% of organizations identify cloud migration as a main driver behind the use of APIs.

10/8/2025
APICloud migration

4% of organizations reported API increases of 201–300%.

10/8/2025
API

25% of respondents pointed to budget limitations as the primary barrier to implementing a strong API security program.

10/8/2025
APIBudget

2% of organizations adhere to other specific security standards or frameworks for API development and deployment.

10/8/2025
API

Only 19% of organizations were 'very confident' in the accuracy of their API inventories.

10/8/2025
APIAPI inventory

55% of organizations were only 'somewhat confident' in the accuracy of their API inventories.

10/8/2025
APIAPI inventory

11% of organizations said their API security budget did not increase.

10/8/2025
APIBudget

4% of organizations do not know what specific security standards or frameworks they adhere to for API development and deployment.

10/8/2025
API

57% of organizations train developers on secure coding practices for AI-generated code.

10/8/2025
APIGenAI

18% of organizations said lower enterprise risk score is a metric for measuring API security ROI

10/8/2025
API

28% of organizations manage between 1 and 100 APIs.

10/8/2025
API

14% of organizations reported their API programs are out of control or hard to manage.

10/8/2025
API

11% of respondents pointed to competing priorities as the primary barrier to implementing a strong API security program.

10/8/2025
API

10% of organizations were not confident at all in their ability to detect and respond to attacks leveraging Generative AI.

10/8/2025
APIGenAI

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