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62% of security teams say keeping up with increased engineering delivery is getting harder.

78% of security practitioners rank exposure of secrets as the top challenge introduced or amplified by AI-assisted coding.

66% of security practitioners spend more than half their time manually validating findings rather than resolving the underlying vulnerabilities.

69% of security practitioners at mid-sized organizations report growing difficulty keeping up with increased code volume.

53% of security practitioners spend time each week coordinating fixes.

46% of security practitioners spend time each week validating exploitability.

100% of surveyed cybersecurity practitioners report increased engineering delivery over the past twelve months.

60% of security practitioners perform triaging of alerts as a top weekly activity.

57% of security practitioners would require a full audit trail of actions taken to trust AI-based penetration testing.

49% of surveyed cybersecurity practitioners attribute most or all of the increased engineering delivery to AI-assisted coding tools.

40% of security practitioners say they are keeping up well with the increased volume of code requiring security review.

Nearly 60% of security practitioners say they are able to keep up with the increased code volume for now, but it is getting harder.