36% of bank leaders cite overreliance on one individual or function as a common gap found in tabletop cybersecurity exercises.

35% of bank leaders cite internal communications as a common gap found in tabletop cybersecurity exercises.

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

Organizations first detected evidence of malicious activity internally 52% of the time in 2025, up from 43% in 2024.

The average breach goes undetected for 181 days.

43% of cybersecurity and IT leaders at enterprises admit their remediation processes are still ad hoc

89% of bank CEOs and technology executives say their bank conducted a tabletop exercise of its cybersecurity incident response plan in the prior 12 months.

Six-second pulse DDoS attacks eliminate the window for reactive intervention.

56% of digital trust professionals indicate they do not know how quickly they could halt an AI system due to a security incident if needed.

7% of digital trust professionals say it would take them more than 60 minutes to halt an AI system after a security incident.

72% of organizations believe they can respond to an incident within 1–24 hours.

57% of organizations report success using AI for alert triage and risk scoring, while 26% report success automating incident response.

42% of healthcare leaders state that reducing incident response and breach remediation costs is one of the most important ROI outcomes when considering microsegmentation investments.

When asked what IT/cybersecurity use cases are being pursued with gen AI, 55% of respondents said incident response and remediation recommendations.

49% of ransomware victims admit they detected their last attack too late to prevent significant damage.

Most vendors detect compromises within a median of 10 days.

SMBs plan to use AI in 2026 for threat detection (39%), incident response (34%), fraud detection (34%), and automated phishing detection (31%).

42% of SMB respondents say AI cyberattack speed makes traditional human-driven patching and response times effectively obsolete.

Organizations leveraging AI and automation can contain threats within 4 minutes versus up to 16 hours with manual efforts.

Organizations with comprehensive OT visibility detect and contain OT ransomware incidents in an average of 5 days, compared to the industry-wide average of 42 days.