Security leaders have made strong progress in visibility. Most organizations can now identify vulnerabilities across their applications, dependencies and development pipelines with far more consistency than in the past. Yet a fundamental imbalance remains: Vulnerabilities are being discovered faster than they can be remediated.
That imbalance is growing. Today, 82% of organizations carry security debt, defined as accumulated vulnerabilities that have remained unresolved for more than a year. At the same time, the share of vulnerabilities defined as both “severe” and “likely to be exploited” continues to increase.
This combination has real consequences. Vulnerabilities are not just accumulati...