Appointments of CISOs fell from 76% to 63% in a single year.

22.0% of organizations have already experienced an AI-related incident involving unexpected costs, a security issue, or both.

59.7% of organizations view an AI-related incident as a near-term risk.

36.7% of organizations identify establishing AI governance as a top AI priority for the next 12 months.

72.9% of organizations have already deployed AI in some form.

70% of organizations experience at least one identity-related security incident.

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

59% of enterprises manage three or more distinct credential and authentication systems.

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

13% of organizations have deployed passkeys at scale.

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

66% of IT leaders cite data infrastructure and data quality issues as barriers to agentic AI adoption

80% of IT leaders say using enterprise data to drive AI-based systems is a top business priority

88% of IT leaders say data streaming platforms help unblock agentic AI progress by making data more trustworthy, contextualised and discoverable

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

52% of security professionals say threat intelligence helps inform decisions but still requires significant human judgement.

16% of U.S. mid-market enterprise IT leaders cite integration complexity as the top barrier to scaling AI.

10% of U.S. mid-market enterprise IT leaders cite lack of internal expertise as the top barrier to scaling AI.

50% of U.S. mid-market enterprise IT leaders expect AI to have a positive impact on software development and engineering productivity.

96% of U.S. mid-market enterprise IT leaders are confident their organization will realize measurable ROI from AI within the next 24 months.