29% of respondents in Japan identify enhancing threat visibility as a top security convergence goal.

48% of gig economy platforms use facial recognition for fraud prevention.

32% of employees are AI self-starters, recognizing that they began using AI tools at work without any prompting.

13% of respondents in the US were likely to have an AI mandate from leadership.

57% of respondents say they've been encouraged to use AI in the workplace.

32% of respondents in the UK and US received explicit encouragement to use AI in the workplace.

59% of employees felt more creative due to AI use.

54% of employees in the retail industry have received training on AI safety and data security.

Only 2% of Financial Services professionals reported no AI training at all.

28% of Organizations are using AI to align observability data with KPIs.

13.0% of organizations expect Runtime security to require the most new investment in AI security over the next 12 months.

83% of leaders at gig economy organisations expect fraud tool spending to increase or hold steady in 2026.

18.5% of analyzed companies use 2 certificate providers.

98% of security leaders reported using AI to manage security compliance in some capacity.

50% of organizations reported that their organization uses AI for AI governance.

Enhancing threat visibility and improving crisis management are the top security convergence goals for 37% of US organizations.

3% of organizations are unsure which aspect of the AI supply chain poses the greatest risk to their organization.

12.3% of organizations adopting AI have the CTO and Engineering organization holding primary responsibility for AI security.

One organization had as many as 13 certificate providers.

Domain Validation (DV) certificates account for 73.5% of all SSL certificates.