Over 33% of IT decision-makers and influencers from Federal, State, Local, and Education sectors leverage AI to automate cybersecurity operations and enhance IT observability.

On average, malware now executes 14 malicious actions.

25% of the malware examined showed behaviours related to T1555 (Credentials from Password Stores).

Process Injection (T1055) has a prevalence rate of 31%.

29% of respondents already started implementing zero trust.

1 in 10 companies performs consistent checks throughout the supplier payment process.

74% of people worry about the societal impact of deepfakes.

29% of people take no action when encountering a suspected deepfake.

75% of organisations ranked Improving Security Awareness as a top initiative, an increase from 66% the previous year.

39% of U.K. software buyers face product identification challenges when planning new technology investments.

67% of detection engineers reported strong leadership buy-in.

There has been a 3X increase in malware specifically targeting credential stores like password managers and browser-stored login data.

Ransomware activity surged at an increase of more than 87% over last year.

44% said Scripting/programming languages is a skill that needs development for their detection engineering workforce.

24% of school administrators express high confidence in their ability to protect student digital identities.

60% of school systems are moving to restrict student phones, which impacts authentication approaches.

Over 200 new hacktivist groups emerged, conducting more than 3,500 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks

93% of all malicious actions observed could be mapped to just 10 MITRE ATT&CK techniques.

3.9 billion credentials were shared in the form of credentials lists (ULP files).

Only 0.1% of participants could accurately distinguish real from fake content across all stimuli.