96% of respondents report that human identities operate with access far beyond what is required for their roles.

42% of the human workforce has direct access to organizational data.

84% of respondents believe their organization could at least moderately improve awareness of the permissions and access granted to connectors and service accounts.

56% of organizations report that they can’t effectively enforce continuous least privilege for service accounts across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments.

64% of organizations still report they are not yet prepared to defend against quantum-enabled threats.

86% agree that they will need external help to become quantum ready.

71% of organizations don’t fully automate certificate renewal and monitoring across all environments.

98% report challenges securing PKI.

Deployment of AI tools initially reduces performance by 10–20% before improvements are realized through repeated testing.

78% of security leaders report high confidence in their defenses, even though security teams score as low as 30% in Defensive Security Readiness exercises.

73% of organizations are using AI agents in their Security Operations Center at a moderate to high level.

49% of organizations include third-party applications in their current patching process.

More than 60% of organizations rely on manual processes in at least part of the patch lifecycle.

More than a third of organizations in the US report attempted cyber attacks occurring daily or even more frequently.

Victims were given an average of 7.7 days to meet ransom demands in Q1 2026.

89% of tech leaders cite the need for large numbers of personnel to fix downtime issues.

Only 38% of technology executives consistently identify the root cause of a downtime incident.

Undisclosed ransomware attacks increased by 2% year-on-year.

Ransomware victims were located in 97 countries in Q1 2026.

Nearly 20% of marketing professionals report it takes an entire quarter to recover brand health after remediation.