The number of data compromises in 2025 (3,322) increases by five percentage points compared to 2024 (3,152) (2025)

Data compromises in 2025 represent a 79 percent jump over five years (2025)

Seventy percent (2,324) of data breach notices in 2025 do not include attack information, compared to 65 percent (2,049) in 2024 and 45 percent (1,449) in 2023 (2023–2025)

Only 51% of security operations leaders say their current SIEM is very effective at reducing mean time to detect and respond to threats.

55% of security leaders in North America and Europe at companies with at least 1,000 employees say their C-suite is not taking agentic AI risks seriously enough (2026).

80% of enterprise organizations say security and DevOps use shared observability tools.

100% of IT and security leaders say a unified platform for logs, metrics, and traces would be valuable for their security and DevOps teams.

68% of organizations in North America and Europe at companies with at least 1,000 employees lack full visibility or governance over AI-generated code contributions (2026).

90% of security leaders say AI/ML is extremely or very valuable in reducing alert fatigue and improving detection accuracy.

The number of women working in the UK cyber security industry has increased 163% since 2021.

50% of organizations have formal, active AI policies in place, and 42% are actively developing AI governance frameworks.

45% of enterprise organizations use six or more security operations tools.

By the end of 2025, healthcare and insurance enterprises lag technology and startup sectors in AI coding assistant adoption by 9–12 percentage points due to regulatory requirements.

AI-assisted workflows achieve a 48–58% faster Time-to-Pull Request (PR) on average.

Cyber security is the fifth fastest-growing profession in the UK.

Cyber security is the UK's fastest-growing IT profession.

25% of IT and security leaders say their threat detection and response process is fully automated.

99% of security operations centers use AI.

28% of cybersecurity professionals in North America and Europe at companies with at least 1,000 employees believe they can prevent a rogue AI agent from causing damage (2026).

76% of security leaders and practitioners report emotional exhaustion and fatigue.