The TrickBot malware family has extorted more than US$724 million in cryptocurrency from victims since 2016.

44% of managed compliance providers state that at least a quarter of their compliance revenue is recurring.

28% of consulting-first security services firms report at least a quarter of their compliance revenue is recurring.

51% of teams have fully addressed OWASP Top 10 threats, meaning nearly half remain exposed to foundational risks.

Application-layer attacks account for 43% of breaches.

16% of security services providers still rely on spreadsheets as their main tool.

90% of security services providers say they face challenges differentiating and standing out in a crowded market.

Just one-in-four security services providers met their recurring revenue targets in 2024.

One in three security services providers struggle to consistently show value and ROI.

87% of security services providers say automation is a high priority.

59% of IT and cybersecurity leaders say it being hard to derive clear action from threat intelligence data is a challenge in actioning threat intelligence.

80% of IT and cybersecurity leaders said that threat intelligence providers should offer information sources that are both broad and deep.

Providing actionable recommendations and next steps to uplevel junior analysts was cited by 63% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

37% of IT and cybersecurity leaders say stale information is a challenge in actioning threat intelligence.

Simplifying the process of searching and querying data for relevant information was cited by 53% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

61% of IT and cybersecurity leaders say too many feeds is a challenge in actioning threat intelligence.

86% of IT and cybersecurity leaders agreed that they "must" use AI to improve their ability to operationalise threat intelligence.

49% of IT and cybersecurity leaders say the difficulty in determining which intelligence applies is a challenge in actioning threat intelligence.

Enhancing trust in the threat intelligence vendor's capabilities to gather new sources of information was cited by 47% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

More than 80% of organisations already use threat intelligence or are planning to across eight major use-cases.