48% say synthetic digital content is a high or critical threat.

There is a 21-point gap between the 48% who say synthetic digital content is a high/critical threat and the 27% who are very prepared.

30% of security professionals are confident that their CEOs could reliably identify a deepfake.

14% of IT, security, risk, and compliance professionals manage GRC via individual teams or business units.

40% of security professionals believe IT lacks an understanding of their organization's risk tolerance.

41% of companies use percentage of exposures remediated as a cybersecurity metric.

85% of organizations are already using or piloting agentic AI.

When shaping future virtualization and private cloud strategies, 70% of enterprises say access to unified backup and cyber‑recovery is very important or business critical.

Organizations expect a 33% average expansion in agentic AI adoption in 2026.

81% of enterprises have fully adopted or are actively scaling agentic AI across teams.

Over a quarter of IT decision makers place AI readiness at the top of their priorities.

More than two-thirds of enterprises plan material changes to their virtualization strategy within the next two years.

57% of enterprises prefer building on existing, open-source tools rather than starting from scratch for AI agent orchestration.

34% of enterprises cite security and governance as the top evaluation factor for agentic AI platforms.

1.6% of public sector agencies report broad AI deployment across departments.

Only 5% of enterprises are fully ready to implement planned virtualization changes.

Over 60% of organizations cite automating identity lifecycle processes and scaling identity operations as their primary GenAI use cases.

65% of enterprises are already using AI agents today.

73% of construction enterprises prefer building on existing, open-source tools for AI agent orchestration.

71% of financial services enterprises prefer building on existing, open-source tools for AI agent orchestration.