71% of cybersecurity professionals say technology decisions get made without the security team at the table.

25% of organizations have increased AI spending without a defined strategy connecting it to their people or security program.

93% of organizations are at some stage of passkey adoption.

65% of IT leaders report fragmented ownership of data

94% of IT leaders say data streaming increases or is expected to increase the impact of their AI investments

25% of security professionals say validating whether risks are real wastes the most time in their security team.

40% of CTOs, CISOs, and CIOs describe their organization's AI governance as mostly functional but requiring significant manual effort.

52% of CTOs, CISOs, and CIOs acknowledge having gaps in visibility into production internal tools but cannot fully quantify those gaps.

86% of security leaders cite AI-powered domain generation algorithms (DGAs) as a cybersecurity threat.

Appointments of CISOs fell from 76% to 63% in a single year.

44% of organizations cite reducing IT costs from password resets and help desk load as a key driver for moving to passwordless authentication.

72% of IT leaders have encountered at least three challenges when scaling AI initiatives

72% of IT leaders report insufficient infrastructure for real-time data processing

66% of IT leaders report uncertainty around data lineage, timeliness, and quality

32% of IT leaders report having agentic AI in production

90% of IT leaders say data streaming helps ease the path to AI adoption

26% of security professionals say chasing false positives and low-priority alerts wastes the most time in their security team.

17% of security professionals say manually stitching together data from multiple security tools wastes the most time in their security team.

Nearly half of organizations discard or do not collect logs to manage cost and system limitations.

88% of IT leaders rank data streaming as a key priority