49% of security leaders in government, defense, and critical services cite ensuring data integrity and preventing tampering in transit as their single biggest challenge when transferring information across classified or coalition networks.

84% of government IT security leaders agree that sharing sensitive data across networks heightens their cyber risk.

75% of consumers who experienced a data breach changed their behavior, compared to 36% of consumers who have not experienced a data breach.

38% of consumers worry most about financial fraud.

88% of consumers would stop using a company if their data was not secure.

28% of consumers regularly review privacy and security settings.

60% of retail and eCommerce enterprises prefer building on existing, open-source tools for AI agent orchestration.

67% of defenders say AI-powered tools have positively impacted threat identification and response.

76% of defenders say AI agents or AI assistants now handle more than 10% of their workload.

OpenAI is present in 96.0% of organizations, with Anthropic present in 77.8% of organizations.

74% of leaders remain concerned about security risks from AI.

17% of prompts include copy/paste and/or file upload activity.

Agent tools Manus, Lindy, and Agent.ai are present in 22%, 11%, and 8% of organizations respectively.

71% of defenders set aside important security tasks at least two days per week.

69% of organizations use more than 10 detection and response tools.

Among the most active chat tools observed, OpenAI accounts for 67% of prompt volume.

Detected sensitive-data events are led by secrets and credentials (47.9%), followed by financial information (36.3%) and health-related data (15.8%).

87% of defenders expect to increase AI use, primarily to replace legacy detection and response tools.

99.6% of organizations are moving toward AI.

63% of defenders want AI agents to handle alert triage and investigations.