JOSEPH GABRIEL LAGONSIN
News Editor
Check Point has published its 2026 Exposure Gap Report, which found that vulnerabilities now account for 42.6% of critical exposures.
That marks a sharp rise from 18.7% a year earlier, indicating a significant shift in the composition of cyber risk across connected environments. Vulnerabilities and internal information disclosure now account for about 76% of all critical exposures.
The findings suggest risk is becoming more concentrated in software and system weaknesses rather than spread across a broader range of exposure types. For security teams, that affects which alerts need immediate attention and which can wait.
The report also says the increase in vulnerability-related exposure does not mean every alert poses the same level of danger. Only 7.8% of vulnerability alerts are validated as exploitable and classified as critical or high severity.
That leaves a wide gap between the number of issues detected and the smaller set that may present a realistic route for attack. In practice, security teams need more than raw…
