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Security program assessment

Where does your security program 
stand in 2026?

4 questions · 1 minutes

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Question 1

How does your team currently measure security health in quarterly reporting?

Severity-weighted exposure, where Criticals and Highs are tracked separately from volume

Severity-tracked, but no weighting or cross-quarter comparison

Raw vulnerability count (total findings per month)

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Question 2

What share of your testing budget does cloud receive?

A secondary line item, significantly less than web

Proportional to finding share, cloud gets roughly what cloud produces

Growing, but still not proportional to cloud's share of our attack surface

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2 to go. Still feel you're on track?

Question 3

Does your cloud testing scope include credential verification inside your mobile and web applications?

S3 and AWS credential extraction is explicitly in our mobile testing scope

Scoped separately, with overlap not formally defined

Cloud and mobile are tested independently with no cross-surface scope

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Question 4

How often does your organization run penetration tests?

Once a year or less (Annual or compliance-driven)

Quarterly (Regular but scheduled in advance)

Monthly or continuously (Ongoing coverage throughout the year)

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Last one, let's find out how your program faired, shall we?

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State of continuous pentesting report 2026

A critical vulnerability was found every 48 seconds in 2025. In 2024, it was every 12 minutes. That’s one critical vulnerability for every reel you watch. So if 2024 was buffering, 2025 just hit autoplay, and 2026 isn't getting any slower. Quiz your security program and get a detailed report for 2026.

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14.6x
Faster growth in Critical vulnerabilities vs all other severity classes
1.8M
Vulnerabilities found last December outnumbered all of 2024 combined
$1.1M
Financial exposure from IDOR is present on all 6 tested surfaces simultaneously
80%
Of tracked AWS credential exposure found during mobile tests, not cloud scans
44x
Increase in Cloud vulnerability growth in one year, but cloud testing coverage grew just 1.23x
91%
Of critical findings have no CVE, no vendor patch, and no remediation playbook

The 1-in-10 metric you're using wrong

Total vulnerability count looks useful until it hides what really changed: severity. In 2025, 1 in 10 findings was Critical. In 2024, it was 1 in 40. Though numbers may have looked fine, risk was out here doing parkour.

The 30-day lag no one talks about

Scan activity this month predicts next month’s findings, not today’s risk. November looked quiet, but December showed up with 1.8M vulnerabilities. While a clean dashboard can be reassuring, know that it is just the calm before the storm.      

Cloud ranked #1 for vulnerabilities in 3 quarters

Cloud overtook web as the primary attack surface three times in 2025. Meanwhile, many teams still plan testing budgets around web security spend, even though the cloud is now driving more risk.

IDOR keeps reincarnating across 6 surfaces

IDOR appeared across all 6 tested surfaces simultaneously. It regenerates with every new feature. Fix it on the web, and the pattern can still reappear in the next API, mobile flow, or product release.

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AI now handles 70% of traditional SOC functions. One platform replaces five vendors.

Kaustubha N K
CTO, Lab To Market Innovations Pvt Ltd

Autonomous pentesting tools are making real-time exploitation decisions on production systems. The question is not whether they work, it's whether you can prove they stayed within the boundaries you set. APTS gives organizations a way to answer that before an incident forces the question.

 Jinson Varghese Behanan
 Pentest Lead, Astra Security

The uncomfortable truth, as we looked at this data, is that most organisations are under-secured because they are mis-measured.

Shikhil and Ananda
Co-Founders, Astra Security

Does the State of Continuous Pentesting Report include security recommendations?

Yes. Every finding in the report is paired with a specific, actionable recommendation. We don’t provide generic best-practice advice. These recommendations are extracted directly from the data. Some practical implementation recommendations include which surface to prioritize based on the findings, whether you need to move from total-count dashboards to severity-weighted reporting, and what a cross-surface testing scope should cover to close the credential exposure gap. The report also includes the OWASP APTS governance framework for organizations evaluating autonomous pentesting tools in 2026, co-authored by Astra Security.

What is the State of Continuous Pentesting Report?

The State of Continuous Pentesting Report is Astra Security's annual data analysis of the risk profile and vulnerabilities from real-world security programs. The aim of the report is to help security leaders understand what the programs are measuring wrong and what that gap is costing them. The 2026 edition is built on 6.8 million findings from 150,000+ scans and 8,000+ engagements across 1,000+ organizations in 70 countries. In contrast to generic, survey-based industry reports, this year’s report is based on actual penetration tests conducted across web, API, cloud, mobile, and network environments over the past year.

How does Astra Security collect data for the State of Pentesting Report?

The entire data in the report comes directly from penetration tests conducted by Astra Security in 2025. This includes automated scans, manual pentests, and continuous testing engagements spanning across six attack surfaces: web applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, iOS, Android, and network. We have not used any modeled estimates, nor have we used third-party data sets.

Important Note: All findings are anonymized and aggregated from real pentesting activity on Astra’s platform. We never share customer data, company names, or vulnerability specifics, only data-backed insights to elevate your security posture.

I have a specific scope, can you tailor the pricing?

Absolutely, you can schedule a call with our sales engineers. In the call they review the scope, show our platform and are happy share a tailored pricing specific to your needs.
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