67% of security leaders lack visibility into access behaviour and lateral movement.

Analysis of over three million dark web posts shows stolen credentials far outpace credit card theft.

Initially, large financial institutions show 44.7% Phish-prone™ Percentage (PPP) rates, meaning nearly 45% of employees were susceptible to phishing attacks or likely to click on a malicious link or download an infected file.

The U.S. accounts for 60% of all ransomware attacks against financial institutions.

65% of CISOs aim to reduce alert noise.

Asia-Pacific and Japan lead in projected insider threat growth (69%).

In the Middle East, nearly one-third (30%) of organisations anticipate a decrease in insider threats.

Manufacturing expects a 60% rise in insider threats.

More than half of executives believe AI tools are fully deployed, contrasting with managers and analysts who report many are still in pilot or evaluation stages

The highest industry adopters of AI in human resources are in wholesale trade (33%) and restaurants, travel, and lodging (25%).

49% of senior IT decision-makers have experienced a major data loss event in the past year.

Only 15% of employees say they are “not very” or “not at all” confident about accurate and satisfactory outputs from AI.

43% of employees use external AI tools paid for by the company.

Only 22% of US full-time desk workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher, who have used AI for work in the past 12 months, report that their employer actively monitors their AI usage.

Only 41% of employees inform their manager or seek permission before using AI.

Just 36% of companies indicate they have a formal AI policy in place.

28% of employees admit they would use AI at work even if it were banned.

Only 20% of employees surveyed say AI was used in their onboarding process.

59% of senior IT decision-makers identify immutable, encrypted storage as a top requirement for modern backup

82% of employees are either “very” or “somewhat” confident about accurate and satisfactory outputs from AI.