41% of cybersecurity professionals identify AI-powered attacks at scale as their biggest security concern, compared with 21% citing supply chain risk and 21% citing unknown threats.

32% of security professionals say AI-driven threats and organisational preparedness are the top issues boards ask about most.

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

13% of security professionals say delays waiting for other teams to act on findings wastes the most time in their security team.

17% of U.S. mid-market enterprise IT leaders cite data readiness as the top barrier to scaling AI.

42% of U.S. mid-market enterprise IT leaders report having a formal AI policy with actively enforced controls.

46% of French leaders cite protecting intellectual property and sensitive information as a primary motivation for data sovereignty.

60% of organizations in Middle East and Africa (MEA) have fully operationalized data sovereignty.

32% of organizations report major challenges with Shadow IT where systems are deployed outside of IT governance.

88% of enterprises are running AI agents, but only 7% are fully prepared to manage them.

38% of CTOs, CISOs, and CIOs call vibe-coded tools running in production a top operational risk.

19% of CTOs, CISOs, and CIOs can definitively say their organizations have not had an AI-caused production incident because of monitoring they have in place.

22% of CTOs, CISOs, and CIOs indicate their organizations have had at least one AI-caused production incident.

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

5% of CTOs, CISOs, and CIOs are very confident they have full visibility into all production internal tools.

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

Approximately 95% of CTOs, CISOs, and CIOs acknowledge at least some gaps in visibility into production internal tools.

31% of CTOs, CISOs, and CIOs say their organization's tolerance for friction in enabling AI building is near zero.

81% of senior technology leaders believe log ingestion and processing must be open and automated for real-time analysis.

60% of employees say the productivity benefits of unsanctioned AI outweigh the security risks when deadlines are involved