Nearly one in four organizations operates on a "skeleton crew" of open-source projects.

Only 21% of global enterprises say they feel prepared to manage attacks involving agentic AI or autonomous workflows.

50.4% of leaders believe threat detection and risk triage will benefit most from AI automation

88.7% of identity leaders rate AI as important or very important to detection and response efforts over the next two years

85% of organizations leverage AI in some capacity in their identity governance processes

78% of CISOs prioritize strengthening identity and access management.

89% of CISOs report improved data correlation with AI.

82% of CISOs believe agentic AI will increase the amount of data reviewed, and 82% say it will increase correlation and response speeds.

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.

Human error contributes to 28% of breaches.

42% of SMB respondents say AI cyberattack speed makes traditional human-driven patching and response times effectively obsolete.

24% of SMB respondents say AI is lowering the barrier to entry for novice criminals.

53% of cyber leaders report burnout related to cybersecurity responsibilities.

73% of SMBs experienced Wi‑Fi or network disruptions in the past 12 months.

29% of SMBs encountered deepfake schemes in the past 12 months.

26% of SMBs experienced ransomware attacks in the past 12 months.

67% of SMBs have real-time threat monitoring or intrusion detection/prevention systems.

32% of SMBs have security awareness training.

40% of SMBs say the removal of the 16-digit primary account number (PAN) from credit and debit cards will significantly or extremely impact the security of business transactions.

75% of security leaders in Saudi Arabia report that AI is already improving security operations.