Report by Cloud Security Alliance
2026 State of Modern Application & AI Security
Key Findings
82% of organizations cannot see AI runtime behavior in real time.
Only 9% of organizations remediate critical or high-severity vulnerabilities in production within 24 hours.
74% of organizations remediate critical or high-severity vulnerabilities in production within 1 to 7 days.
70% of organizations have AI-powered components in production.
73% of organizations would adopt virtual patching that reliably blocks production exploits with minimal false positives.
42% of organizations plan to invest more in runtime security over the next 24 months.
Organizations that remediate vulnerabilities in 4–7 days are breached by a known vulnerability at a 97% rate.
92% of organizations prioritizing risk identification before deployment experience a known-vulnerability incident in the past year.
Organizations that patch vulnerabilities within 24 hours are breached by a known vulnerability at a 77% rate.
91% of organizations that report being "very confident" in their AppSec strategy still experience a production incident that bypasses pre-production controls.