26% of respondents are concerned about distrust of AI predictions/outcomes.

27% of organizations say runtime is the least defended phase in their AI security.

24% of gig economy respondents said that collusion is a top fraud and abuse concern for both 2025 and 2026.

Only 32% of organizations operate at a managed level with measured effectiveness and reporting in AI security governance.

97% of AI users within the global workforce use AI tools weekly.

82% of companies have experienced a significant cyberattack in the past year.

69% of employees say they are optimistic about the use of AI agents.

82% of managers have been trained in AI tools.

Among managers, AI adoption sits at 79%.

32% of employees are entirely self-taught on using AI in their job role.

59% of AI users in retail engage with AI daily.

23% of respondents in Germany received explicit encouragement to use AI in the workplace.

17% of respondents cite promo & referral abuse as a top concern for the gig economy in 2026.

Exposing vulnerabilities is a top security convergence goal for 40% of German organizations.

43% of organizations believe they are somewhat overconfident in their incident recovery capabilities but are taking steps to improve.

Optimizing cloud security is a top security convergence goal for 39% of German organizations.

14% of companies that experienced a cyberattack in the past year reported the cost of one hour of downtime to be between $500,000 and $1,000,000.

18% of respondents are concerned about AI ethics.

11.0% of organizations expect Staff, skills, and training in AI security to require the most new investment over the next 12 months.

33% of companies that experienced a cyberattack in the past year reported the cost of one hour of downtime to be between $250,000 and $500,000.