In 2025, 61% of CISOs indicated that their organization’s board and C-suite expect the cybersecurity group to guarantee zero breaches and ransomware incidents.

63% of U.S. organizations admit employees bypass controls to move faster.

49% of organizations identify governance gaps as a top investment priority for 2026.

36% of leaders are actively consolidating toward unified identity platforms.

Smaller organizations are twice as likely to report insufficient resilience compared to large firms.

91% of U.S. organizations report that at least half of their privileged access is always-on, providing unrestricted access to sensitive systems.

Organizations now manage machine identities at a ratio commonly exceeding 100:1, with some sectors approaching 500:1.

46% of organizations identify emerging identity complexities as a top investment priority for 2026.

72% of CISOs agreed that their role has evolved to include leading their organization’s ability to recover continuity following a cyberattack or security incident.

65% of CISOs agreed that their organization prioritizes Cyber Resilience over traditional prevention, detection, and response.

In 2025, 83% of CISOs reported that Cyber Resilience was more critical for their organization than traditional cybersecurity measures, compared to 90% in the previous year.

Approximately 4.5% of outbound healthcare email connections were delivered to servers with expired or self-signed certificates.

Regulated data accounted for 54% of data policy violations linked to personal cloud applications in 2025.

Approximately 45% of advanced email attacks showed indicators of AI assistance, projected to rise to 75–95% within the next 18 months

70% of operational management professionals reported using ungoverned AI tools.

In 2025, 19% of CISOs indicated that recovery efforts from cyber incidents extended as long as two weeks.

87% of global business leaders reported experiencing rising AI-related vulnerabilities in 2025.

In 2025, 55% of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) in the US and UK reported that their organization experienced a cyberattack, ransomware infection, compromise, or data breach that rendered mobile, remote, or hybrid endpoint devices inoperable.

In Q3 2025, fake account creation accounted for 46% of all fraudulent activity.

Bot requests increased by 2% in Q3 2025 compared to the prior quarter, representing billions of requests.