32% of organizations have already established clearly defined governance or guardrails for AI security tools.

47% of IT professionals say AI has added the responsibility of evaluating and validating AI outputs.

61% of IT professionals report that AI provides faster root cause analysis.

42% of organizations that experienced a cyber incident report customer or constituent disruption.

41% of organizations that experienced a cyber incident report financial loss or revenue impact.

25% of organizations say shadow IT and unauthorized AI tool usage are a primary concern related to employee AI tool use and data security.

49% of organizations increased cybersecurity budgets year-over-year.

63% of senior cybersecurity decision makers anticipate boosting incident response by embedding AI across threat detection and incident response activities.

86% of private healthcare security decision makers report legal and communications challenges when responding to a cyber attack.

89% of senior cybersecurity decision makers report limited executive or board involvement in incident response readiness and decision making.

83% of organizations in crypto and decentralized finance, 79% in retail, and 76% in manufacturing experienced cyber attacks.

99% of bot traffic is unwanted or unverifiable.

Only 1% of bots are verified or wanted.

Every model produced at least one false-positive run by hallucinating vulnerable paths in the OpenNDS real-world task

66% of security practitioners spend more than half their time manually validating findings rather than resolving the underlying vulnerabilities.

69% of security practitioners at mid-sized organizations report growing difficulty keeping up with increased code volume.

53% of security practitioners spend time each week coordinating fixes.

46% of security practitioners spend time each week validating exploitability.

57% of security practitioners would require a full audit trail of actions taken to trust AI-based penetration testing.

The rate of effective automation between CTI and SecOps tools doubled from 13% in 2025 to 26% in 2026.