Radware Cyber Survey Uncovers Critical Weaknesses in Application Security Measures

• Only 8% of organizations use AI-based protection solutions
• Just 6% of respondents have full documentation for all their APIs
• Half of respondents don’t know what third-party code is being used by their apps
• Only 29% of security staff are fully trained to handle API business logic attacks

MAHWAH, N.J., June 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), a global leader in application security and delivery solutions for multi-cloud environments, today released its new report, 2025 Cyber Survey: Application Security at a Breaking Point. The survey reveals threat areas of rapidly growing concern as organizations’ cyber defenses lag well behind. This includes a major lack of protection against AI threats, as well as API and business logic attacks, among others.

“The weaponization of AI by malicious actors is intensifying cybersecurity threats and drawing even more attention to areas where companies are simply ill-protected,” said Shira Sagiv, Radware’s vice president of product portfolio. “Internal alarms should be sounding. Companies openly admit to major concerns about gaps in cyber protection and lack of readiness, especially around web applications and APIs; yet their usage continues to climb creating even more risk and exposure.”

KEY FINDINGS

The scramble is on to catch up with AI
According to the report, the use of AI to improve and intensify hacking tradecraft is of greatest concern. Organizations have significant concerns about threat actors using AI to generate new attacks at a faster cadence, bypassing existing defenses and compromising areas that were previously too difficult to attack.

• Top concerns: The following percentage of respondents are highly or extremely concerned about hackers using AI:
  • To create/improve hacking tools – 70%.
  • To generate a larger volume of cyberattacks – 67%.
  • To launch new zero-day attack vectors – 66%.
• Large readiness gap: Despite the concerns about hackers embracing AI, only 8% of organizations are currently using AI-based solutions for defenses.
• AI adoption: Four out of five organizations plan to implement AI-based cybersecurity solutions within the next 12 months.