HackerOne Security Research Report: Exposure Debt

Hi ala,

Here's a number worth sitting with: when AI gets a vulnerability validation wrong, 39% of organizations say the CISO personally absorbs the blame, yet only 10% have a formal accountability framework for when it happens.

That gap is one of several that the 10th edition of the HackerOne Security Report highlights for security leaders this year.

The central finding is a paradox you're likely already living: your team is remediating 54% faster than two years ago, and the backlog has still grown 131%. Discovery has broken away from resolution, and the exposure is accumulating in the highest-severity findings, the ones hardest to fix.

The report is built for the conversations you're having with your board right now, and it closes with five data-backed actions, including why validation speed belongs on the board's dashboard and where remediation investment is actually falling short.