CyberGrid publishes State of SaaS Security 2026, its quarterly industry report on the security posture of the top public SaaS companies
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Independent security-and-compliance practice known for flat-fee penetration testing and 90-day SOC 2 readiness engagements releases new data showing 61 percent of SaaS companies still ship without a Content-Security-Policy.
NEW YORK — July 11, 2026 — CyberGrid, an independent security and compliance practice for SaaS teams, today published the State of SaaS Security 2026, its quarterly industry report grading 186 public SaaS companies — including Stripe, Twilio, Atlassian, and Zendesk — on the security posture visible from the outside of their websites.
The report finds that ninety-four percent of the SaaS companies measured have adopted modern Transport Layer Security, up from roughly seventy percent three years ago. Only thirty-nine percent, however, have deployed a Content-Security-Policy — the browser-level defense against cross-site scripting — and just twelve percent have shipped the full set of six modern browser security headers recommended by the Open Web Application Security Project. Seventy percent of scanned companies are missing a Referrer-Policy header, sixty-one percent are missing frame-embedding protection, and one in eight companies still leaks the identity of their backend framework through an X-Powered-By response header.
"TLS became a solved problem the moment cloud infrastructure providers made it a default," said Shankar Nigam, Senior Security Engineer at CyberGrid. "Security headers still require someone in the application code to decide what value to set, and that decision keeps losing the internal prioritization fight. That is why we still see the same class of missing headers in every engagement we run."
Vertical breakdown
Fintech and payments companies posted the strongest surface posture overall, with sixty percent grading at A or A minus. Enterprise SaaS and vertical SaaS segments showed the widest spread between top and bottom performers, and consumer SaaS had the highest rate of stack disclosure. The full per-vertical breakdown, methodology, and five actionable recommendations are available at thecybergrid.com/blog/appsec-field-guide/state-of-saas-security-2026.html.
CyberGrid publishes the report on a quarterly cadence. The next edition is scheduled for October 2026.
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About CyberGrid
CyberGrid is an independent security and compliance practice for SaaS teams. Its services include a $1,999-per-year automated external assessment, flat-fee $4,999 penetration testing with a $1,999 remediation retest included in the same package, a $999-per-month Continuous Security bundle combining both, and a 90-day SOC 2 readiness program starting at $5,999 with a referred CPA audit firm. CyberGrid publishes all pricing openly on its website and offers no long-term commitments on its recurring services. More information is available at thecybergrid.com.
Media Contact
Shankar Nigam Senior Security Engineer, CyberGrid Email: admin@thecybergrid.com Website: https://thecybergrid.com
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