81% of parents in the surveyed countries fear their child's likeness will be stolen.

19% of adults aged 18+ in the United States, UK, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland have turned off voicemail recordings to prevent voice cloning.

17% of organizations remain entirely unprepared for AI security.

45% of organizations are still developing AI governance programs.

75% of sensitive data exposures begin with compromised identities or misconfigured permissions.

70% of organizations have no unified strategy connecting identity and data visibility.

44% of enterprises identify security analysis as a top training priority.

64% of organizations that rate themselves "very confident" in their AI security posture have experienced a confirmed AI identity incident.

80% of organizations report shadow AI (employees connecting AI tools without security or IT review).

85% of organizations have faced customer, partner, or regulatory demands to prove tenant isolation.

Security concerns (51%) and privacy concerns (44%) are the top barriers to new technology adoption in 2026.

East–West internal traffic represents more than 70% of a company’s communications and remains unprotected.

87% of enterprise servers accept inbound RDP or SSH connections from broad internal sources, giving attackers wide access pathways once inside the network.

74% of organizations report that at least 25% of AI-generated code requires significant rework in the past 12 months.

0% of organizations ban vibe coding outright.

96% of technology leaders rate observability as very or extremely important when working with AI-generated code, and 0% rate it as slightly or not important.

68% of enterprises have zero technical visibility into autonomous AI agent workflows that inherit user identity and single sign-on tokens.

71% of organizations reported between one and nine intrusions, up from 47% the previous year.

2% of organizations reported more than 10 intrusions, unchanged from the previous year.

89% of organizations expect increased regulation within five years or less, up from 66% in 2025.