2027 Outlook Report: The Future of Application Security in the Era of AI

Within one year, the share of organizations knowingly shipping vulnerable code decreases from 81% to 75%.

96% of developers acknowledge having AI tooling integrated in their IDEs.

Companies with 81–100% AI-generated production code ship software with known security vulnerabilities at a 47% rate compared with 14% for companies with 1–20% AI-generated production code, making them nearly three times more likely.

18% of developers apply security continuously as they write code.

95% of CISOs feel pressure to suppress or delay compliance-related security issues when business deadlines are at stake.

75% of organizations knowingly deploy vulnerable code at some point.

Within one year, the proportion of companies with formal AI governance policies increases from 18% to 22%.

93% of organizations acknowledge a recent breach tied to their own applications.

73% of organizations describe their security posture as 'advanced' or 'highly mature'.

78% of organizations lack formal AI governance policies.

More than 80% of developers do not apply application security continuously as code is written.