31% of AI-related security incidents led to operational disruption.

One in five organisations (which is 20%) reported a breach due to shadow AI.

63% of breached organisations either don't have an AI governance policy or are still developing one.

51% of organizations have adopted AI for mission-critical operations.

16% of breaches studied involved attackers using AI tools.

72% of UK organisations believe AI will strengthen security in the years ahead

13% of organisations reported breaches of AI models or applications.

Organisations using AI and automation extensively throughout their security operations saved an average of $1.9 million in breach costs.

Only 37% of organisations have policies to manage AI or detect shadow AI.

The explosion of AI is cited by 39% of cybersecurity and cyber risk leaders as a reason for increased difficulty in managing cyber risks today vs five years ago.

Enhancing trust in the threat intelligence vendor's capabilities to gather new sources of information was cited by 47% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

Providing actionable recommendations and next steps to uplevel junior analysts was cited by 63% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

Simplifying the process of searching and querying data for relevant information was cited by 53% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

86% of IT and cybersecurity leaders agreed that they "must" use AI to improve their ability to operationalise threat intelligence.

Making threat intelligence more accessible to different stakeholders was cited by 68% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

Enabling the ability to foccus on higher-priority tasks via time saved was cited by 60% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

Improving the capability to prioritize threats and vulnerabilities was cited by 68% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

Improving decision-making with more complete, accurate, relevant, and timely information was cited by 59% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

Enhancing trust in the threat intelligence vendor's capabilities to analyze and correlate information was cited by 55% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

Improving efficiency by generating easy-to-read summaries was cited most frequently (69%) by IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.