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).

Ransomware victims concentrate geographically with the U.S. at 3,381, Canada at 374, and Germany at 291.