31% of security professionals identify integration gaps between tools as an obstacle to scaling AI and automation.

The number of victim notices in 2025 (278,827,933) is the lowest number of victim notices since 2014 and the lowest number since the last U.S. state and territories adopted data breach laws in 2018 (2025)

The Identity Theft Resource Center sets a new record with 3,322 data compromises in 2025, up four percentage points from the previous all-time high in 2023 (3,202) (2025)

In 2025, Financial Services had 739 compromises; Healthcare had 534 compromises; Professional Services had 478 compromises; Manufacturing had 299 compromises; Education had 188 compromises (2025)

There is one cyber security professional for every 68 businesses in the UK, down from one per 196 businesses in 2021.

93% of enterprise organizations use at least three security operations tools.

55% of IT and security leaders report having too many point solutions in their security stack.

92% of security professionals believe intelligent workflows would add value to their organizations.

90% of security operations leaders say supporting data sources from multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments is very or extremely important for their SIEM, highlighting the continued need for data pipeline management.

Top AI-related cybersecurity concerns are data leakage through copilots and agents (22%), third-party and supply chain risks (21%), evolving regulations (20%), shadow AI (18%), and prompt injection attacks (18%).

Security teams anticipate higher productivity (48%), faster response times (41%), and better data accuracy (40%) from intelligent workflows.

69% of cybersecurity professionals in North America and Europe at companies with at least 1,000 employees believe that vulnerabilities in AI agents and autonomous systems pose a greater threat to their company's security and identity systems than human misuse of AI (2026).

There are 83,700 cyber security professionals in the UK, up from 28,500 in 2021, representing a 194% increase since 2021.

52% of security operations leaders are very confident their current SIEM can scale to meet future security and cloud operations needs.

Security teams rate AI as highly effective for threat detection (61%), identity and access monitoring (56%), and compliance and policy writing (55%).

Eighty-eight percent of consumers who received a data breach notice experience at least one negative consequence after a breach; 40 percent experience an increase in phishing or scam attempts; 49 percent experience an increase in spam emails or robocalls; 40 percent experience attempted takeover of an existing account (2025)

86% of cybersecurity professionals in North America and Europe at companies with at least 1,000 employees agree that AI agents and autonomous systems cannot be fully trusted without unique, dynamic digital identities (2026).

77% of security teams regularly rely on AI, automation, or workflow tools.

Eighty percent of the 1,040 consumers surveyed by the Identity Theft Resource Center report having received a data breach notice in the last 12 months (2025)

Nearly 40 percent of the 1,040 consumers surveyed received three to five separate data breach notices in the past 12 months (2025)