--- title: Survey: Most Cybersecurity Incidents Stem From Known... description: A survey of 300 IT and cybersecurity professionals finds 79% of organizations experienced a security incident involving a known vulnerability in the past year.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/survey-most-cybersecurity-incidents-stem-from-known-vulnerabilities-okzxkkqjv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Survey: Most Cybersecurity Incidents Stem From Known Vulnerabilities | daily.dev og:description: A survey of 300 IT and cybersecurity professionals finds 79% of organizations experienced a security incident involving a known vulnerability in the past year.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/survey-most-cybersecurity-incidents-stem-from-known-vulnerabilities-okzxkkqjv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/OkzxkkQJV.png og:image:alt: Survey: Most Cybersecurity Incidents Stem From Known Vulnerabilities og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Survey: Most Cybersecurity Incidents Stem From Known Vulnerabilities **[Security Boulevard](https://daily.dev/sources/securityboulevard)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A survey of 300 IT and cybersecurity professionals finds 79% of organizations experienced a security incident involving a known vulnerability in the past year. More than half (53%) had known about the vulnerability for 30 days or more before the incident occurred. Only 25% of organizations can automate remediation workflows within their security platform, while 75% still rely on manual processes like ticketing. Key obstacles include competing priorities, slow change management approvals, and overly manual processes. With AI accelerating exploit development, the gap between vulnerability discovery and remediation is becoming increasingly dangerous, and experts argue automation is the only viable path forward. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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