A surprising 13% of all respondents admitted to using their pet's name for a password.

42% of people in Washington, D.C., are worried about their financial institutions being hacked.

One-third of small healthcare practices have no clear policies or procedures in place.

Nearly half of Americans (48%) are still stuck using the same password for multiple online accounts.

78% of all organizations intend to increase their genAI spend.

Nearly half of Americans (48%) are still stuck using the same password for multiple online accounts.

Agape Health paid $25,000 for emailing protected health information unencrypted.

Only 43% of organizations have implemented AI-based cybersecurity measures.

32.7% of security leaders pointed to not using a PAM (Privileged Access Management) solution as a common misstep in privileged access management

27.3% of respondents cited integration issues with legacy systems as a top obstacle to zero trust implementation.

Just 27.3% of organisations surveyed had effectively implemented zero trust.

30% of respondents cited complexity of deployment as a top obstacle to zero trust implementation.

40% of security leaders pointed to not enforcing multi-factor authentication as a common misstep in privileged access management.

33.6% of security leaders pointed to failing to remove unnecessary privileges as a common misstep in privileged access management.

20% of respondents cited lack of leadership support as a top obstacle to zero trust implementation.

Only 16.4% of respondents felt fully confident in their ability to defend against AI-powered identity attacks.

Fewer than half of the CISOs, AppSec managers and developers report deploying foundational security tools like dynamic application security testing (DAST) or infrastructure-as-code scanning.

Just 51% of North American organisations report adopting DevSecOps

Only half of organisations surveyed actively use core DevSecOps tools.

34% of CISOs, AppSec managers and developers admit that more than 60% of their code is AI-generated.