Skyhigh Security research reveals a 200% increase in AI application traffic within the last year. This compares to a 23% increase in traffic to non-AI applications.

Over 700 issues in Agentic AI repositories remain unaddressed.

AI can automate 70% of all incident investigations and threat remediation activity.

Only 22% of all AI applications are in adherence to one or more compliance certifications such as HIPAA, PCI, ISO, FISMA, and FedRAMP.

84% of AI applications don’t support ‘Data Encryption at Rest’.

95% of AI applications are at medium or high risk for EU GDPR violation.

AI now pulls indicators of compromise (IOCs) in as quickly as 10 seconds.

In January 2025, customers uploaded a combined 176GB of data into the DeepSeek AI chatbot.

Only 16.2% of enterprise data input into AI tools is destined for enterprise-ready, low-risk alternatives.

Financial services have 26.2% employee AI adoption.

Technology companies still lead in AI adoption with 38.9% of employees using AI tools.

Retail organizations have surged to second place of AI adoption with 26.4% of employees now regularly using AI tools.

10.8% of AI-generated material enters source code management systems.

Manufacturing companies saw 20x growth in employee AI adoption.

Gemini usage increased 171.9% in the seven weeks following its 2.0 release.

Only 11% of AI tools assessed qualify for low or very low risk classifications.

When companies officially deploy specialized AI development environments like Cursor or Cline, usage grows by 400% in the first four months after rollout.

More than two-thirds of organizations are unprepared for threats targeting AI.

Cloud documents receive 18.0% of AI-generated content.

47% cannot secure shadow AI usage in their organization.