69% of security, IT, and compliance professionals state that adoption of AI tools in their organization is outpacing existing security and compliance controls.

For network intrusions, the root cause was not found 34% of the time.

The cost of the largest investigations increased by more than 10% in 2025 compared with the previous year.

Vendors were the cause of 25% of data security incidents analyzed.

Ransomware negotiation discounts of 50%–75% often take 20–60 days of negotiations.

57% of security, IT, and compliance professionals believe AI-related incidents are most likely to trigger regulatory action or customer fallout in 2026.

Only 18% of security, IT, and compliance professionals are not concerned about AI-related compliance risk.

In the past 12 months, 26% of organizations report regulatory actions related to AI.

Internal repos are 6x more likely to contain hardcoded secrets than public ones.

64% of application-layer DDoS attacks exceed 10 minutes.

More than two-thirds of CFOs estimate that up to 30% of their cloud spend is wasted.

Total number of DDoS attacks increased to 1,300,000 in Q4 2025 from 512,000 in Q4 2024.

DDoS attacks surged by 150% year-on-year.

75% of large U.S. companies have not implemented a solution to address quantum security threats to legacy data.

87% of surveyed organizations reported experiencing an API-related security incident in 2025.

35% of security leaders working across the UK’s 13 CNI sectors cited regulatory requirements as the primary influence on their security programs, up from 26% the in 2025 and 29% the year before.

60% of companies have not yet deployed or are only planning to deploy solutions to address generative AI data privacy breach risk.

75% of companies say exposure of legacy data is a quantum security risk and 75% have not yet deployed solutions to address that risk.

47% of organizations say their AI models can learn robust norms and make safe decisions autonomously.

55% of global IT decision-makers admit they still lack the necessary expertise needed to implement and manage AI-powered security solutions effectively, a five-point increase year-on-year.