44% of organizations cite reducing the risk of data breaches as a top motivator for data sovereignty action.

43% of organizations cite gaining greater control over data as a top motivator for data sovereignty action.

33% of organizations say internal audits and compliance reviews trigger action on data sovereignty.

34% of organizations identify cross-border data flows as a major visibility gap.

33% of organizations identify third-party vendors as a major visibility gap.

93% of CTOs, CISOs, and CIOs are concerned about vibe-coded tools running in production.

37% of CTOs, CISOs, and CIOs describe their organization's AI governance as uneven across teams.

10% of CTOs, CISOs, and CIOs describe their organization's AI governance as reactive.

Organizations use an average of seven different tools to manage logs and telemetry.

Roughly a third of organizations pay for redundant or underutilized observability features.

Only 14% of security leaders are very confident in their company's ability to mitigate domain attacks.

Top AI use cases for cybersecurity are automating scanning and testing (50%), predictive risk analysis (48%), and threat detection (38%).

57% of cybersecurity professionals who considered leaving their role in the past 18 months have considered leaving cybersecurity entirely.

22.0% of organizations have already experienced an AI-related incident involving unexpected costs, a security issue, or both.

59.7% of organizations view an AI-related incident as a near-term risk.

36.7% of organizations identify establishing AI governance as a top AI priority for the next 12 months.

72.9% of organizations have already deployed AI in some form.

72.5% of EMEA organizations are actively deprioritizing data sovereignty in favor of accelerating AI.

59% of enterprises manage three or more distinct credential and authentication systems.

58% of UK organizations cite preventing data breaches as the primary reason for data sovereignty efforts.