Only 3% of CIOs report no current plans to implement Edge AI.

92% of respondents believe threat intelligence is critical.

18% of respondents claimed to personally know someone involved in insider fraud.

78% of respondents believe AI will improve threat intel sharing within their organization.

22% of organizations are actively in production with limited deployment of AI at the edge.

Survey respondents estimated that approximately 16% of budgets could be saved by tackling fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) in general.

Current AI adoption rates for addressing FWA are relatively low, with about half of those surveyed using AI.

Among those already using AI to confront FWA, nearly 40% cite better prioritization of fraud alerts and quicker identification of FWA as benefits.

59% of respondents report having too many alerts.

33% of SOCs are using GenAI for Threat intelligence analysis.

85% of respondents listed fighting fraud as a top five priority.

Nearly a third face significant resource limitations in fighting FWA.

31% of SOCs are using GenAI for Querying security data.

When it comes to the most concerning threat actors, external sources dominate with hacktivists holding the top spot.

Since January 2024, DNSFilter has been processing a monthly average of over 330 million queries that fall under the generative AI category.

This number of blocked requests represented about 12% of all generative AI queries processed by DNSFilter in March.

There was a 2,000% rise in malicious sites containing "openai" in their name between April 2024 and April 2025

1 in 3 (33%) of respondents plan to fill skills gaps with AI and automation.

Compared to publicly available tools, 63% agree that domain-specific AI significantly or extremely enhances security operations.

63% of respondents reported having serious concerns about providing biometric information.