The financial cost of a cybersecurity incident for AI-first businesses exceeds the cost for non-AI-first businesses by more than 135%.

44% of AI-first organizations report that AI was directly exploited in their most recent security incident, compared to 6% of non-AI-first organizations.

AI-first businesses take nearly seven months on average to fully recover from cybersecurity incidents, which is 80 days longer than non-AI-first businesses.

34% of AI-first organizations say AI use led to a security oversight or blind spot that contributed to their last security incident, compared to 20% for non-AI-first organizations.