Cloud Security Alliance

20 stats2 reports

All Statistics

82% of organizations cannot see AI runtime behavior in real time.

Cloud Security Alliance2026 State of Modern Application & AI Security·2mo ago
AI SecurityRuntime MonitoringAI Runtime Behavior

Only 9% of organizations remediate critical or high-severity vulnerabilities in production within 24 hours.

Cloud Security Alliance2026 State of Modern Application & AI Security·2mo ago
Vulnerability Management

74% of organizations remediate critical or high-severity vulnerabilities in production within 1 to 7 days.

Cloud Security Alliance2026 State of Modern Application & AI Security·2mo ago
Vulnerability Management

SaaS security is a top priority for 86% of organisations, with 76% increasing their budgets this year.

SaaSBudget

46% of organisations are struggling to monitor non-human identities (NHIs).

SaaSNon-human identities

79% of organisations expressed confidence in their security programs.

SaaSSecurity program

70% of organizations have AI-powered components in production.

Cloud Security Alliance2026 State of Modern Application & AI Security·2mo ago
AI AdoptionApplication Security

73% of organizations would adopt virtual patching that reliably blocks production exploits with minimal false positives.

Cloud Security Alliance2026 State of Modern Application & AI Security·2mo ago
Virtual Patching

42% of organizations plan to invest more in runtime security over the next 24 months.

Cloud Security Alliance2026 State of Modern Application & AI Security·2mo ago
Security InvestmentRuntime SecurityBudget

Organizations that remediate vulnerabilities in 4–7 days are breached by a known vulnerability at a 97% rate.

Cloud Security Alliance2026 State of Modern Application & AI Security·2mo ago
Vulnerability ManagementVulnerability Exploitation

92% of organizations prioritizing risk identification before deployment experience a known-vulnerability incident in the past year.

Cloud Security Alliance2026 State of Modern Application & AI Security·2mo ago
Risk IdenitificationVulnerability Management

Organizations that patch vulnerabilities within 24 hours are breached by a known vulnerability at a 77% rate.

Cloud Security Alliance2026 State of Modern Application & AI Security·2mo ago
Vulnerability ExploitationPatch ManagementVulnerability Management

91% of organizations that report being "very confident" in their AppSec strategy still experience a production incident that bypasses pre-production controls.

Cloud Security Alliance2026 State of Modern Application & AI Security·2mo ago
AppSecOperational Risk

54% of organisations lacked automation for lifecycle management.

SaaSAutomationLifecycle management

55% of respondents shared that employees are adopting SaaS tools without security's involvement.

SaaS

63% of organizations report external data oversharing and 56% say employees upload sensitive data to unauthorized SaaS apps.

SaaSData exposure

56% of organisations concerned with over-privileged API access.

SaaSAPI

Too many organisations are relying on fragmented strategies, such as vendor-native tools (69%), general-purpose solutions like Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs) (43%), and manual audits (46%)

SaaSFragmentation

58% of respondents said enforcing proper privilege levels was difficult.

SaaSPrivileges

57% of organisations reported they are grappling with fragmented SaaS security administration.

SaaSFragmentation