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AI adoption in security has soared. But for many teams, manual work and burnout remain stubbornly high. To understand why, and what security teams must do next, we partnered with Sapio research to survey more than 1,800 security leaders and practitioners worldwide for our Voice of Security 2026 report. We wanted to learn how teams are using AI and automation, how the role of security is evolving, and how professionals believe AI will impact their careers. The data is revealing.

If you stand behind almost any modern checkout today and inspect the network tab, you will rarely see a tidy, controlled set of assets. Instead, you will see 15 to 30 different scripts, ranging from payment orchestration and fraud tools to analytics and session replay, all the way to tag managers, experimentation, consent logic, and accessibility widgets, with many loading from domains your security team has never directly vetted.

Chances are, if you are reading this article, you are comparing Stripe, Adyen, and PayPal (Braintree) on fees, payout timing, and how quickly you can ship the integration. And that would be reasonable. But the security outcome is shaped earlier than most teams think. A payment processor protects card data once it enters its fields and systems. The transaction begins on your checkout page, inside a browser that is also running analytics, tag managers, A/B tests, support widgets, and third-party scripts.

Hackers love web applications. Why? Because 9 out of 10 vulnerabilities exist at the application layer, and exploiting them lets attackers bypass firewalls and perimeter defenses completely. In 2025, a total of 48,448 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) were published, up 17% from the previous year, where such exploited vulnerabilities in web applications cost organizations an average of $4.44 million in damages, excluding the lost reputation.

Web applications process billions of transactions every day, handling everything from user credentials to financial records. This constant exchange of data makes them prime targets for attackers who are looking to gain access for data theft or service disruption. Web application security vulnerabilities are highly sophisticated attack vectors that can exploit authentication flows, business logic, and API integrations.

The fact that you’re here is proof enough that API is somewhere disturbing your or your security team’s sleep. Whether it is 99% of organizations reporting API security issues in recent surveys, or it’s a compliance/client mandate. We know you are (fear you soon will be) grappling with shadow APIs, misconfigured endpoints leaking sensitive data, BOLAs, unauthorized access, and more.

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2025 marked a pivotal year for SafeBreach as we took our first steps in our evolution from the pioneers in Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) to the leader in Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM). The year was marked by a number of impressive highlights, all of which we could not have achieved without the partnership of our employees, customers, and partners: Read on for more in-depth insights into the year that was 2025 for SafeBreach and a sneak peak at what’s in store for 2026.

On January 27, 2026, Fortinet released an advisory detailing a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting FortiOS, FortiAnalyzer, FortiManager, and FortiProxy products. Designated CVE-2026-24858, the vulnerability allows an unauthenticated threat actor with a FortiCloud account and a registered device to log into other devices registered to other accounts, if FortiCloud SSO authentication is enabled on those devices.