84% of state CISOs are involved in Generative AI strategy development.

16% of state CISOs report their budgets have been cut, up from none in 2024.

67% of C-suite leaders at enterprises report being very confident in AI’s outputs.

21% of managers at enterprises report being very confident in AI’s outputs.

39% of enterprises identify investigation and analysis as a top bottleneck in workflows.

29% of enterprises report transitions between teams or tools as a meaningful source of workflow delay.

55% of teams at enterprises report that AI has met expectations in security operations.

57% of healthcare organizations use AI-enabled or AI-assisted medical technologies.

80% of healthcare organizations report moderate to high concern about the cybersecurity risks associated with AI-enabled or AI-assisted medical systems.

40% of organizations rank integrating generative and agentic AI into the business among their top three cybersecurity priorities.

36% of organizations rank privilege relationships among their top three cybersecurity priorities.

32% of organizations cite tool complexity as a barrier to operationalizing Identity APM.

32% of organizations cite integration challenges as a barrier to operationalizing Identity APM.

30% of organizations are actively researching or evaluating an identity-based Attack Path Management (APM) solution.

Anthropic Opus 4.6 incured roughly 100 times the detection cost of Google Gemini 3 Flash in the benchmark.

46% of IT security professionals report that AI is contributing to a rise in adaptive and evasive malware.

31.2% of consumers choose general AI tools such as ChatGPT or Gemini for agentic commerce, 27.0% favor retailer websites or apps, and 24.4% indicate no preferred platform

Up to one third of employees operate beyond IT oversight when using AI.

More than 70% of employees worldwide use AI on a weekly basis.

The top three targeted sectors by ransomware victims were manufacturing (1,284), business services (824), and retail (682).