44% of UK IT leaders in the public sector say they've adopted MFA.

In Japan, concern about AI compromising security increased from 31% in 2024 to 74% in 2025 (a 43 percentage point increase).

64% of US IT leaders want to automate parts of their email infrastructure, but only 17% say they are fully prepared to implement automation.

LLM crawler traffic rose from 2.6% of verified bot traffic in January to over 10.1% by August.

46% of financial services leaders highlight insider threats as a top concern.

88.9% of domains disallow GPTBot in their robots.txt files.

Government, Non-Profit, and Telecoms sectors have the weakest protection against bots.

LLM crawler traffic quadrupled across DataDome’s customer base in 2025.

Only 2% of domains with over 30M monthly visits were fully protected against bots.

Travel & Hospitality, Gambling, and Real Estate led the way with the highest combined rates of full and partial protection against bots.

The percentage of respondents who could correctly recognize a phishing attempt was similar across generations: Gen Z - 45%, Millennials - 47%, Gen X and baby boomers - 46% (both groups).

In Sweden, concern about AI compromising security increased from 37% in 2024 to 68% in 2025 (a 31 percentage point increase).

Professionals in high-email-volume sectors like legal and finance send 20-30+ emails daily.

DataDome alone detected nearly 1.7 billion requests from OpenAI crawlers in a single month.

In 2025, 64% of AI bot traffic reached forms.

In Latin America, 38.5% of websites were partially protected against bots.

The Median Time to Remediation (MTTR) for serious findings is 61 days in the financial services industry. This ranks financial services 11th of 13 industries measured.

In 2025, 23% of AI bot traffic reached login pages.

91% of organizations believe that sensitive data should be allowed in AI training.

Nearly half (49%) of UK IT leaders report being hit by an email-related security incident in the past 12 months alone.