19% of manufacturing and automotive decision-makers think that AI has been overhyped in the short-term but foresee substantial mid- to long-term benefits.

When asked where they felt AI will have the biggest impact, 32% of manufacturing leaders primarily say real-time detection and response.

Manufacturers (62%) are already deriving more benefits from AI than other sectors.

Across both sectors (manufacturing and automotive), 70% of respondents expect DDoS attack mitigation to be largely driven by AI (as opposed to humans) within four years.

95% of organizations see value in using AI to Automate the creation of training videos.

Over half of respondents (57%) in manufacturing and automotive industries believe AI will reduce their network costs over the next three years.

A significant minority (37%) of manufacturing and automotive decision-makers foresee AI causing network costs to rise.

85% of organizations use AI for threat detection.

22% of employees have unrestricted access to public GenAI.

60% of organizations lack confidence in detecting unregulated AI deployments (shadow AI).

Only 48% believe their teams fully grasp how malicious actors are using AI to execute sophisticated attacks.

89% of organizations use AI to understand threats better.

70% of organizations use AI for response and recovery.

60% of IT teams are unaware of employee interactions with GenAI.

86% of organizations have experienced AI-related security incidents in the last year.

51% of employees are using approved third-party GenAI tools.

Only 49% of respondents are confident their employees fully understand AI related threats.

43% of organizations use AI to anticipate and prevent attacks.

60% of financial professionals recognise voice cloning as a major concern.

70% of organizations say that AI improved job satisfaction