R&D materials account for 17.1% of sensitive data going into AI.

AI usage at work has increased 4.6x in the past 12 months.

Professional services have 17.2% employee AI adoption.

Retail firms achieved 24x increase in employee AI adoption.

44% of organizations say it’s difficult to hire for automation and AI roles.

AI usage at work has grown an astounding 61x over the past 24 months.

Developer adoption of DeepSeek surged rapidly, reaching 17.7% of AI development activity by February 2025.

45% of organizations took up to three months to implement their most recent automation.

34.4% of AI tools have user data accessible to third parties without adequate controls.

Only 15% of organizations deployed their most recent automation in under a month.

Only 3% of organizations have ruled out autonomous AI entirely.

29% of organizations struggle with compliance since auditors require proof of data security and privacy in AI-based systems.

Mid-level employees use AI tools 3.5 times more frequently than manager-level employees.

Only 15% of organizations deployed their most recent automation in under a month.

53% of organizations plan to adopt AI agents for threat detection.

72% believe AI will play a significant role in exposure management.

Claude usage rose 136.1% after version 3.5 launched.

Source code is the most common type of sensitive data employees put into AI, accounting for 18.7% of sensitive data.

60% of organizations are already using artificial intelligence (AI) in their IT infrastructure.

Only 6% of respondents currently have fully mature automation programmes.