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Annual Penetration Testing Review 2025

The State of Penetration Testing Report, based on 660 real-world security assessments

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About this Resource

The Annual Penetration Testing Review 2025 is Blaze Information Security’s data-driven analysis of security assessments conducted across 145 organizations in 11 industries, including finance, e-commerce, SaaS, healthcare and energy. 

Every insight in this report is derived from confirmed vulnerabilities identified through a combination of expert-led offensive testing methodologies and controlled tooling across real business systems.

Beyond cataloging weaknesses, the report analyzes how vulnerabilities are reached. We examine attack vectors using CVSS exploitability metrics, assess privilege and interaction requirements, and evaluate impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability dimensions. The data also includes compliance-driven engagements conducted under SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS requirements, allowing us to compare how regulatory testing translates into actual security outcomes.

This report reflects penetration testing as it exists in practice: what fails under targeted adversarial testing, how those failures are exposed, and which weaknesses continue to recur across modern applications, APIs, infrastructure, and cloud architectures.

What’s inside

  • Analysis of 3,294 confirmed vulnerabilities identified in 2025
  • Severity trends and high-impact vulnerability distribution
  • Recurring failure patterns and attack vector insights
  • Comparison across assessment types: web, API, mobile, infrastructure, cloud, and red team
  • Industry benchmarks across E-commerce and Retail, Tech, Software and SaaS, Finance & Fintech, Healthcare, and Energy sectors.
  • Compliance insights across SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS environments
  • Mapping to MITRE’s Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses

 

Who it’s for

  • CISOs and security leaders who need real-world benchmarks and prioritization signals
  • Security engineers and architects responsible for application and cloud security
  • Platform teams designing access control and trust boundaries
  • Risk and compliance teams looking to understand how frameworks translate into real-world security outcomes

If you’re responsible for reducing risk in modern systems, this report provides grounded evidence of where offensive security consistently reveals meaningful weaknesses.

Download the Annual Penetration Testing Review 2025 to benchmark your security posture and understand the real-world patterns shaping the state of penetration testing today.

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