CrowdStrike 2024
State of Application Security Report

Custom applications are complex
and constantly changing.

Security must keep up.

70%

of critical incidents take longer than 12 hours to resolve

90%

of security professionals are using three or more tools to detect and prioritize threats

54%

of major code changes go through security reviews

The CrowdStrike 2024 State of Application Security Report provides a candid look into
how organizations are securing modern, frequently changing applications. It includes:

  • Trends in application programming languages, deployment velocity and security review coverage

  • Top challenges that application security teams face today

  • An overview of how long security reviews take and what they cost

  • A review of how long it takes to resolve critical application security incidents

Read CrowdStrike's
2024 State of Application Security Report

Get the must-read application security report

Read CrowdStrike's
2024 State of Application Security Report

Get the must-read application security report

Key report insights

The increasing frequency of application changes expands the attack surface.
  • 71% of organizations push updates to applications once per week or more

Maintaining an inventory of application microservices and APIs is a manual job.
  • 74% of application security professionals rely on documentation to catalog their applications and APIs
  • 68% use spreadsheets
Prioritizing what application security issues to fix first is a top concern.
  • 61% ranked prioritization among their top three challenges 
  • 22% cited it as their top challenge 
  • Some teams use 25+ tools for detecting threats but struggle to prioritize effectively