82% of organizations carry security debt. Critical security debt - high severity, high exploitability - jumped 20 percentage points in a single year. The median fix half-life is 243 days. FedRAMP’s window for critical vulnerabilities is 30.
That gap isn’t a technical problem. It’s a governance crisis, and regulators are legislating against it with fines, operational restrictions, and personal executive liability.
The 2026 Compliance State of Software Security maps these findings across 12 regulated verticals and gives you the Find, Fix, Govern framework before enforcement arrives.
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