2025 Report

The State of the Application Security Workflow

This report aims to equip readers with actionable insights that can help future-proof their security programs.

Kodem, the publisher of this report, purpose built a platform that bridges these gaps by unifying shift-left strategies with runtime monitoring and protection.


Based on qualitative and quantitative responses of industry security leaders, practitioners, developers and DevOps professional

Envisioning the next frontier for AppSec workflows

Today’s application security landscape presents a fundamental challenge: expanding attack surfaces and rapid development cycles outpace traditional security approaches.


Application security teams face a fundamental mismatch to secure cloud-native architectures and API-driven integrations while maintaining development velocity.

Key findings

A glimpse into some number that immediately popped out
78%
Use more than 5 security tools
Fragmentation in security toolsets

Respondents use more than five different tools in their application security stack, leading to inefficiencies and fragmented visibility.

62%
Emphasize slow remediation
Remediation is the largest bottleneck

Respondents cite critical vulnerabilities taking more than four weeks to fix, with teams overwhelmed by poor prioritization of risks.

73%
Implement Shift-left
Shift-left adoption is growing but incomplete

Organizations have implemented shift-left security, but only half successfully integrated these practices into developer workflows.

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