28% of employees admit they would use AI at work even if it were banned.

Only 20% of employees surveyed say AI was used in their onboarding process.

59% of senior IT decision-makers identify immutable, encrypted storage as a top requirement for modern backup

82% of employees are either “very” or “somewhat” confident about accurate and satisfactory outputs from AI.

61% of senior IT decision-makers highlight physically segregated storage as a key requirement for modern SaaS backup.

37% of senior IT decision-makers still rely solely on their SaaS application’s native backup capabilities.

11% of senior IT decision-makers state it would take a month or more to recover data after a loss incident, or that they might not be able to fully recover at all.

60% of employees rely on free AI platforms.

62% of senior IT decision-makers identify physically segregated storage as a top requirement for modern backup.

24% of employees use internally developed AI platforms.

The large majority (68%) of employees report regularly finding errors with AI technology.

84% of managers acknowledge some level of AI use among their teams.

70% of Seattleites use Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

90% of organisations recognise an overlap between their preparedness efforts for short-lived certificates and PQC readiness.

Less than 1 in 5 (19%) organisations feel very prepared to support the coming shift to 47-day certificate renewal cycles.

92% of organisations expect to increase investments into PQC preparadness initiatives over the next 2-3 years.

82% of innovation leaders are already allocating more than 6% of their IT budgets to genAI-enabled data management.

42 previously unaffected countries experienced their first-ever ransomware attacks in the last 12 months.

Synthetic fraud rates fluctuated during 1H 2025, initially rising to cross the 1% threshold before dropping back to around 70 basis points.

19% of people in Los Angeles only change their passwords when prompted or after experiencing a security incident.