For over ten years, the security group has been faced with rigid irony: the more advanced the steel detection tools, the less useful their results have turned out. As the alerts from the static analysis tools, scanners and cve databases grew, the best security promise became more far away. In its place, the new reality became interested – one definitely by fatigue and overloaded teams.
According to security eye 2025 Application Safety Reportstaggering 95-98% Appsec notice do not require action – And in fact it can harm organizations more than help.
Our research, which covers more than 101 million security results in 178 organizations, cover the attention of fundamental ineffectiveness in today’s AppSec operations. Of the nearly 570,000 medium -sized alerts for the organization, only 202 presented true, critical issues.
This is a strange conclusion that is difficult to ignore: security teams pursue shadows, spend time, burn through budgets and tense relationships with developers over vulnerabilities that do not pose a real threat. The worst thing is that safety interferes with real innovation. As Chris Hughes introduces it A steady cyber: “We do it all, masking as a business -stimulus, actively burying peers in work, delays development rate and eventually impeding the results of the business.
As we got here: mountain problems, zero context
Back in 2015, the security task was easier. Only 6494 CVE were publicly disclosed in the year. The detection was the king. The tools were measured by the number of questions they found – not or did not matter.
Fast forward to 2025: applications went on the cloud, the development cycles accelerated, and attack surfaces. Over the past year alone, more than 40,000 new CVE has been published, which led to a total amount of up to 200,000. However, despite these serious changes, many AppSec tools could not develop: they doubled from detection, hiding the dashboards with unfiltered, without contextual alerts.
OX benchmark confirms what practitioners suspected:
- 32% The questions reported have a low likelihood of exploitation
- 25% do not have a well -known public exploitation
- 25% follows from unused dependencies only for development
This flood of insignificant conclusions not just slows down – it actively worsens it.
Although most alerts can be ignored, it is important to accurately determine 2-5%that require immediate attention. Report Shows that these rare alerts usually include KEV problems, secrets management problems, and in some cases, posture management problems.
Need in a holistic approach to prioritization
In order to combat this foolish organization, a more perfect approach to the security of applications, based on the priorities that are conditioned. This requires a transition from overall address to alert to a comprehensive model that covers the code from the design stages to the time performance, and includes several items:
- Achievance: Is the vulnerable code used and it is available?
- Exploited: Are there the conditions of exploitation in this environment?
- Influence on business: Can the violation here cause real damage?
- Display cloud to code: Where did the SDLC come from?
By introducing this basis, the organizations can effectively filter the noise and focus their efforts on a small percentage of alerts that pose a true threat. This improves security efficiency, releases valuable resources and allows for more confident development.
The safety of the tin solves this problem with the projection of the code, the basis of actual data, which reflects the cloud and the implementation elements before the origin of the code, which allows for contextual understanding and dynamic risk priorities.
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Influence in the real world
Data tell about a powerful story: using priorities based on facts 569 354 General Alerts For the organization can be reduced to 11 836Only of which 202 require immediate action.
Industry indicators reveal several key ideas:
- Consecutive noise thresholds: The base level level remains extremely similar in different conditions, whether it is an enterprise or commercial, regardless of industry.
- The complexity of the security of the enterprises: ENTERPRISE Wednesday faces much greater problems with their wider tool ecosystem, larger traces of application, higher safety events, more frequent incidents and increasing overall risk.
- Vulnerability of the financial sector: Financial institutions feel clearly higher alert volumes. Their processing of financial transactions and sensitive data makes them high -value goals. According to the Verizon data investigation report, 95% of the attackers are motivated primarily by financial benefits rather than espionage or other reasons. The proximity of financial institutions to cash assets creates direct opportunities for profit for attackers.
The conclusions have far -reaching consequences. If less than 95% of the security security fixes are crucial for the organization, then all organizations invest huge resources in the triage, programming and clock in vain. These waste extended to payments for Bug Loug Vounty programs, where white hackers find vulnerabilities to fix, as well as costs for complex fixes that were not detected early and reached production. The latest significant expense is the tension created in organizations between developers and security groups that require corrections for vulnerability.
Detection failed, priority is the way forward
As organizations face the projected 50,000 new vulnerabilities only in 2025, the rates for effective trial safety have never been higher. The old model “discover everything, fix later”, not just outdated – it is dangerous.
The Ox Security report calls for a convincing matter: the future of the security security is not in resolving any possible vulnerability, but in intellectual identification and focus on issues that pose a real risk.
