38% of restaurant chains say reliance on third-party vendors increases their cyber risk.

44% of restaurant leaders say employees prioritize speed over security protocols.

40% of quick service and fast casual restaurant chains had payment card data leaked in the past 12 months.

10% of restaurant chains have temporarily or permanently closed a location following a cyberattack.

Malware activity averaged 39,341 hits per firewall in the first half of 2026, giving financial services the second-highest per-device malware intensity of any industry, behind only healthcare.

99.9% of AI vulnerabilities with an available fix remain unpatched.

Among organizations adopting AI, 64% run vector databases.

Between 87% and 98% of AI workloads across the three major cloud providers lack customer-managed encryption.

The five most prolific ransomware groups collectively claimed more than 40% of all recorded attacks.

51% of IAM leaders and stakeholders cite the inability to support legacy apps and infrastructure as an obstacle to universal phishing-resistant MFA.

53% of organizations had an executive or employee impersonated.

6.84% of executive impersonation alerts originated from open community forums.

23.8% of executives face impersonation attacks distributed across social platforms, lookalike domains, forums, and broker-site PII exposure simultaneously.

Adoption of AI-powered fraud detection grew by 71% year-on-year.

41% of CISOs are concerned about malicious insiders using AI to support fraud, cybercrime or data theft.

34% say it's hard to see who can access sensitive files.

36% of restaurant chains have 24x7 monitoring, standardized controls, and tested response plans at all locations.

68% of restaurant leaders lose more than $1,000 per hour when point-of-sale or ordering systems fail during a peak meal rush.

54% of restaurants have between 26 and 99 connected IoT devices per location.

28% of restaurant leaders delay security patches frequently to avoid disrupting service.