72% of organizations believe they can respond to an incident within 1–24 hours.

42% of IT professionals cite skills gaps as a barrier to fully operationalizing AI in observability

Wireless vulnerabilities grew 20 times faster than conventional threats over the last 15 years.

Wireless vulnerability cumulative totals doubled every 2–4 years since 2014.

66% of Australians reuse passwords across multiple online accounts.

Wireless vulnerabilities have grown more than 230‑fold since 2010.

48% of people read privacy policies and reports, up from 43%.

61% of consumers point to platforms such as social media networks, online marketplaces, and search engines as most responsible for preventing e-commerce scams.

Latin America recorded the highest average number of attacks worldwide, with 3,123 weekly attacks per organization, alongside the largest year‑over‑year increase (+20%).

10% of intrusions investigated involved Business Email Compromise (BEC), with actors targeting banking details for wire and deposit fraud.

97% of senior corporate security leaders agree their organization's competitive advantage in the next two years will be directly tied to the maturity of agentic AI cybersecurity defenses.

When asked what IT/cybersecurity use cases are being pursued with gen AI, 61% of respondents said help desk and ticket automation.

28% of employees are using agentic AI tools that take actions on their behalf and perform multi-step tasks.

74% of breached healthcare organizations lacked effective DMARC enforcement (41% missing entirely, 33% monitor-only).

56% of breached healthcare organizations had permissive or missing SPF records (9% missing, 46% soft fail).

Microsoft 365 is adopted by approximately 79% of healthcare organizations.

Where IT/OT alignment weakens in organizations in manufacturing and critical infrastructure sectors, vendor-related incident exposure nearly triples.

63% of organizations acknowledge that there is "shadow AI" within their organizations.

Organizations that get verifiable transparency data from vendors see 64% quicker implementation of new technology.

Only 30% of boards describe their relationship with the CISO as strong and collaborative.