2025 Report

The State of the Application Security Workflow

We created this report to shine a light on the most pressing challenges in AppSec workflows today. To achieve this, we surveyed security leaders, CISOs, and AppSec practitioners across industries, uncovering how teams are navigating fragmented tools, slow remediation, and the complexity of securing modern, cloud-native applications. We compiled the results into this comprehensive report to help you build a smarter, more resilient approach to securing your applications.

Envisioning the next frontier for AppSec workflows

Today’s AppSec landscape presents a fundamental challenge: expanding attack surfaces and rapid development cycles outpace traditional security approaches.
AppSec teams face a fundamental mismatch to secure cloud-native architectures and API-driven integrations while maintaining development velocity.

Kodem’s Runtime platform bridges these critical gaps by unifying shift-left strategies with runtime monitoring and protection.

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.