68% of senior IT and infrastructure leaders in the business and professional services industry identified gaining network and security observability as their top strategic networking and security priority.

58% of senior IT and infrastructure leaders in the business and professional services industry identified managing remote user access and latency as a top networking and security challenge.

85% of security teams have experienced budget or resource-related changes in the past six months.

24% of Gen Z and 20% of Millennials see AI's potential but are still learning how to use it.

48% of IT and security decision-makers say budget or resource cuts have led to team restructuring.

66% of senior IT and infrastructure leaders in the business and professional services industry identified securing SaaS and public cloud apps as a top networking and security challenge.

21% of employees are optimistic about AI.

23% of employees turn to public AI tools because their company's own tools are too limited or hard to use.

37% of organisations report that 1–100 AI agents are currently active within their systems.

38% of manufacturers intend to utilise data from current sources to enhance protection, making cybersecurity a leading smart manufacturing use case.

79% of IT and security decision-makers say federal defunding has increased overall cyber risk.

69% of Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation avoid using unofficial AI tools at work.

Nearly half of Americans (49%) who use AI at work keep it to themselves.

80% of US consumers who interacted more frequently with AI chatbots in the past year have shared personal information during these interactions.

35% of Gen X avoid using unofficial AI tools at work.

17% of UK organisations hit by ransomware in the past year paid the ransom. This figure is down from 27% in 2024 and 44% in 2023.

Only 10% of Baby Boomers see AI's potential but are still learning how to use it.

Nearly half of employees are entering company-related information into public AI tools to complete tasks and concealing their AI use.

Only one in three employees (36%) say their workplace has clear policies and approved AI tools in place.

24% of employees turn to public AI tools in an attempt to gain a competitive edge.