90% of organizations report high confidence in established frameworks such as GDPR.

68% of organizations prioritize broader digital transformation initiatives over establishing strong data controls.

72% of global IT leaders say a lack of real-time data infrastructure is stalling their efforts to scale AI

38% of organizations identify public cloud environments as a major visibility gap.

43% of CTOs, CISOs, and CIOs are not very confident or not at all confident they have full visibility into all production internal tools.

59% of CTOs, CISOs, and CIOs cannot confirm whether their organizations have had an AI-caused production incident.

82% of IT leaders cite AI and machine learning technologies as a key priority

44.4% of organizations identify automating IT operations as a top AI priority for the next 12 months.

41% of cybersecurity professionals identify AI-powered attacks at scale as their biggest security concern, compared with 21% citing supply chain risk and 21% citing unknown threats.

32% of security professionals say AI-driven threats and organisational preparedness are the top issues boards ask about most.

50% of enterprises have unified reporting ownership for physical and digital identity.

34% of Finance organizations operate fully separate reporting structures for physical and digital identity despite stringent regulatory access-control obligations.

58% of enterprises say managing digital identity has become more complex over the past two years.

65% of organizations report high or expert technical familiarity with passkeys.

45% of organizations cite reducing phishing and credential-based breach risk as the leading driver for moving to passwordless authentication.

35% of organizations experience delays or failures revoking physical or logical access within 24 hours when an employee leaves, with such events occurring in the past two years.

13% of security professionals say delays waiting for other teams to act on findings wastes the most time in their security team.

19% of security professionals completely trust threat intelligence to tell them what to fix first.

17% of U.S. mid-market enterprise IT leaders cite data readiness as the top barrier to scaling AI.

42% of U.S. mid-market enterprise IT leaders report having a formal AI policy with actively enforced controls.