58% of SMBs use network firewalls.

52% of SMBs employ email/spam filters.

17% of SMBs significantly increased their cybersecurity spend.

35% of respondents cite interpreting and operationalizing complex regulatory requirements as their biggest challenge.

27% of SMBs said they were targeted in the past 12 months.

83% of US organizations reported a rise in cyberattacks.

54% of US companies are planning for significant increases of 6% to 10% in their cybersecurity budgets.

70% of US organizations are dedicating more than 10% of their budgets to AI-related cyber initiatives.

53% of leaders at U.S. organizations cite a lack of qualified candidates as a high-impact challenge.

Critical and major defects are up to 1.7 times higher in AI-authored changes compared to human-authored changes.

89% of headless bot traffic (which mimic human behavior at machine speed) in Q3 targeted transaction-heavy industries like Financial Services and Commerce.

Organizations classified as 'Exceptional' in AppSec maturity are 1.9 times less likely to experience a data breach than Emerging programs.

92% of school IT leaders expect AI-powered phishing to be the most dangerous threat in the coming year

Only 9% of organizations have adopted comprehensive, multi-layered security programs for executives.

Code readability problems in AI-generated code increase by more than 3 times, with notable issues in naming and formatting inconsistencies.

64% of SMB owners reportedly recovered quickly from a cyber attack.

Half of SMBs reported increasing their cybersecurity budgets.

Organizations classified as 'Exceptional' in AppSec maturity are 3.6 times more likely to report a 20% or greater improvement in application availability compared to the average.

Only 6% of U.S. IT leaders report that their current setup works perfectly.

Organizations classified as 'Exceptional' in AppSec maturity are 3.6 times more likely to achieve a 20% or greater improvement in developer productivity compared to those in the 'Evolving' category.