37% of security professionals fear AI-related regulations are a financial penalty waiting to happen.

76% of SecOps teams state that AI makes their roles easier.

49% of manufacturers planning to use AI for cybersecurity in 2025. This is up from 40% in 2024 for using AI for cybersecurity

32% of security professionals cite difficulties in keeping up with increasing AI-related policies.

AI saves security teams an average of 12 hours per week on manual processes.

38% of respondents were unable to differentiate between machine learning and deep learning.

Nearly 70% of security professionals believe AI also contributes to burnout.

Manufacturers investing in generative and causal AI increased 12% year-over-year.

Two-thirds of respondents were confused about fundamental AI definitions.

The last two years have seen 150% year-over-year growth in AI-related incidents, with a significant inflection point coinciding with widespread cloud adoption in the late 2010s/early 2020s and the 2022 release of ChatGPT.

Recent research from Wiz highlights 6 known vulnerabilities with the underlying AI providers themselves.

Recent research indicates that half of organizations reporting AI-related security incidents estimated losses exceeding $50 million. Using an industry-standard metric of $169 per breached record, this equates to approximately 300,000 data records per organization.

Analysis of FireTail's customer data revealed that nearly 39% of all API requests resulted in HTTP 429 (Too Many Requests) responses, suggesting potential abuse. Of these 429 responses, about 20% were linked to bot traffic.

The AI Incident Database maintained by the Responsible AI Collaborative tracks AI-related issues dating back to the 1980s, with concentrated growth from 2010 onwards.

A scan of publicly accessible GitHub repositories found that the number of OpenAPI specifications decreased from 2,879 in 2023 to 2,160 in 2025.

90% or more of generative AI usage falls into the "shadow AI" scenario, meaning it occurs without the knowledge of central IT and information security teams.

Cumulatively, over 1.6 billion records have been exposed since 2017 due to API breaches.

In the last three years, there have been 79 documented API breaches, significantly more than the 22 cloud-related breaches in the same period, indicating APIs are a growing focal point for attackers.

Despite the rise in API security incidents, the number of breaches dropped from 18 to 93.

A vulnerability in the Irish Government COVID-19 Vaccination Portal, present since December 2021, was disclosed in March 2024 and exposed the vaccination records of approximately one million residents.