Veracode-State-of-Software-Security-Report-2026.md

The 2026 State of Software Security report (Veracode) analyzes 1.6 million applications and 141.3 million findings and concludes that security debt is worsening (82% of organizations affected; 60% with critical debt), high-risk vulnerabilities rose ~36%, and remediation capacity lags despite modest detection gains; third‑party components drive much of the critical debt and the report recommends risk-based prioritization, AI-assisted remediation pilots, dependency management, and board-level metrics.