The retail sector saw its highest ever Q2 2025 ransomware attack volumes, with publicly disclosed incidents jumping by 58% compared to Q1 2025.

Within both financial services and commercial/consumer sectors, 41% of professionals reported actively evaluating AI tools.

The healthcare sector was the most targeted with 52 publicly disclosed ransomware attacks between April - June 2025.

36% of those in the public sector indicated they are actively evaluating AI tools.

Global willingness to spend time verifying identity on sharing economy platforms was 70% in 2025, which is only slightly down from 71% in 2024.

50% of consumers globally don't feel adequately protected in the sharing economy (including vacation rentals and other travel-focused gig economy services).

80% of consumers globally were willing to spend more time on security for digital platforms supporting banking and financial services

The top five areas where AI security tools are expected to have the most positive impact on operations in the shortest amount of time, by improving efficiencies and automating time-consuming tasks, are network monitoring and intrusion detection (60%), endpoint protection and response (56%), vulnerability management (50%), threat modeling (45%), and security testing (43%).

44% of cybersecurity professionals said that their organizations are actively reconsidering the roles and skills needed to support the adoption and use of AI security tools

May had a 40% increase in publicly disclosed ransomware attacks year-on-year, with a total of 91 attacks.

Mid-sized (500–2,499 employees) and the smallest (1–99 employees) organizations show the lowest adoption rates of AI tools, with 20% in each group.

Among cybersecurity professionals who have already adopted AI security tools, 70% report positive impacts on their team's overall effectiveness.

Nearly half (44%) of cybersecurity professionals agreed that their organization's cybersecurity hiring has not yet been affected by the introduction of AI security tools.

21% of cybersecurity professionals say AI has changed their hiring plans and priorities in their organizations.

95% of publicly disclosed ransomware attacks involved the theft of sensitive information.

44% of cybersecurity professionals report no impact on hiring from current or expected adoption of AI security tools.

Leading industries in adoption, evaluation, or testing ot AI are industrial enterprises (38%), IT services (36%), commercial/consumer sectors (36%), and professional services organizations (34%).

The majority (42%) of cybersecurity professionals are currently exploring or testing the adoption of AI security tools.

The Construction, Hospitality, and Arts and Entertainment sectors reported their highest ever Q2 2025 ransomware attack volumes.

More than half (52%) of cybersecurity professionals say AI will significantly or somewhat reduce the need for entry-level staff.