DERAILED | 2026 Application Security Benchmark Report

After prioritization, the average organization manages 795 critical findings, up from 202 the prior year (nearly quadrupling).

Average raw alerts per organization are 865,398, a 52% increase from 569,354.

High Business Priority is the most frequent risk-elevating factor at 27.76%, followed by PII Processing at 22.08% and CVSS High Severity at 20.55%.

Insurance organizations have the highest proportion of critical findings at 1.76%.

Critical findings constitute 0.092% of raw findings, up from 0.035%.