Report by Check Point
Under Pressure: The 2026 Exposure Gap Report
Key Findings
Only 7.8% of vulnerability alerts warrant Critical or High attention after exploitability validation, so more than 90% do not require immediate remediation focus.
Phishing websites account for 10.5% of critical exposures, up sharply from 1.0% the year before.
76% of all critical exposures come from just two categories: vulnerabilities and internal information disclosure.
Vulnerabilities account for 78.2% of critical exposures in Utilities.
Vulnerabilities account for 56.4% of critical exposures in Government.
Internal information disclosure accounts for 63.6% of critical exposures in Healthcare.
Internal information disclosure accounts for 42.7% of critical exposures in Financial Services.
Healthcare records the slowest median remediation time at 158.8 hours.
42.6% of all critical exposures are vulnerabilities, more than double the 18.7% recorded the year before.
Utilities resolve 30% of critical exposures within one hour.