52% of enterprises report meaningful impact from agentic AI in IT.

81% of enterprises have fully adopted or are actively scaling agentic AI across teams.

63% of manufacturing enterprises prefer building on existing, open-source tools for AI agent orchestration.

57% of enterprises prefer building on existing, open-source tools rather than starting from scratch for AI agent orchestration.

100% of enterprises plan to expand agentic AI adoption in 2026.

Organizations expect a 33% average expansion in agentic AI adoption in 2026.

65% of enterprises are already using AI agents today.

57% of public sector agencies are actively exploring and learning about AI.

1.6% of public sector agencies report broad AI deployment across departments.

76% of defenders say AI agents or AI assistants now handle more than 10% of their workload.

87% of defenders expect to increase AI use, primarily to replace legacy detection and response tools.

40% of IT leaders self-assess as mature in their AI practices, yet only 22% meet objective standards for leading AI readiness.

85% of IT leaders agree that secure identity and access management is critical for scaling AI safely.

61% of organizations report the use of unsanctioned AI tools, creating significant visibility and governance gaps.

90% of leaders see productivity gains from AI.

67% of defenders say AI-powered tools have positively impacted threat identification and response.

74% of leaders remain concerned about security risks from AI.

40% of organizations believe they are AI mature, but only 22% possess the objective IT foundation required to scale AI safely.

63% of defenders want AI agents to handle alert triage and investigations.

99.6% of organizations are moving toward AI.