Organizations that find compliance requirements very challenging have a breach rate of 82.4%, which is 14 percentage points higher than organizations with lower compliance difficulty (68.3%).

55% of security, IT, and compliance professionals say AI-related data exposure or misuse is their top breach concern, exceeding concerns about ransomware, IAM failures, or cloud misconfigurations.

72% of cybersecurity professionals agree that reducing security personnel significantly increases the risk of a breach in their organizations.