71% of consumers are open to using telco provider apps for security.

46% of respondents say privacy policies indicate app security.

Awareness of potential AI-related cybersecurity risks is reassuringly high (83%) among education leaders.

2% of consumers stay informed about trending scams and online threats through newspapers.

7% of consumers stay informed about trending scams and online threats through the government.

In 2023, 55% of data and IT leaders cited security as a top investment area.

81% of consumers use multifactor authentication (MFA) to log in to at least one online account.

Nearly 6 in 10 domains in Latin America were completely exposed to bots.

83% of UK IT leaders report suffering at least one email-related security incident.

When shown a phishing email, 54% of respondents either believed it was an authentic message written by a human or were unsure.

86% of US IT leaders indicate that more than half of their business communication flows through email.

47% of IT leaders based in Australia cite managing external threats (such as phishing and spoofing) as their top security challenge.

38% of UK IT leaders cited AI-driven threat detection as the most common defence against email-related incidents.

Server security misconfigurations: 34.9% in the financial services industry (versus 27.9% average in other industries).

In the US, 34% of respondents identify hardware security keys/passkeys as the most secure option, up from 18% last year (a 16-point increase)

36% on average (over a third) of all security incidents reported by IT leaders are email-driven.

46% of UK IT leaders cited email filtering as the most common defence against email-related incidents.

Sensitive data exposure: 10.5% in the financial services industry (versus 8.0% average in other industries).

Only 2.8% of websites were fully protected against bots in 2025, which is down from 8.4% in 2024.

Components with known vulnerabilities: 6.1% in the financial services industry (versus 5.5% average in other industries).