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

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

98% of security leaders are concerned about the risks of giving third-party AI-based systems, including large language models, access to company data.

79% of security leaders are concerned or very concerned that suppliers' and partners' AI tool use poses a cybersecurity risk to their organization.

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

44% of security leaders use AI-based solutions for threat detection and fraud prevention.

83% of organizations are currently using or planning to adopt AI for cybersecurity.

68% of cybersecurity professionals say the job has become harder over the past two years.

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

32% of IT leaders report having agentic AI in production

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

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

In 2025, macOS vulnerabilities increased by more than 1,000% across enterprise environments.

In 2025, vulnerabilities in security software rose 39%.

In 2025, privilege escalation vulnerabilities in security software jumped 107%.

One in ten adults aged 18+ in the United States, UK, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland have had explicit AI images made of them without consent.