62% of healthcare and manufacturing security leaders say today's microsegmentation solutions are easier to deploy than those from five years ago.

53% of organizations have a board member involved in or leading a cyber risk assessment committee.

Among IT security professionals who expect AI to reduce required headcount, 46% expect this shift to occur within the next two years.

74% of healthcare organizations identify visiting clinicians as requiring the most granular policy attention.

Only 9% of healthcare and manufacturing organizations have protected more than 80% of their critical systems.

97% of IT security hiring managers are actively seeking candidates with at least one AI-related skill.

54% of organizations are actively developing plans to strengthen their security posture and risk mitigation strategies for quantum computing.

73.9% of consumers expect strong safeguards such as biometric or one-time password authentication for every transaction

In Q4 2025, 70% of consumers said they were at least somewhat comfortable with AI agents making purchases on their behalf

94% of IT decision-makers are confident their current disaster recovery plan covers scenarios involving agentic AI systems.

56% of IT decision-makers place a high priority on protecting SaaS data and disaster recovery when implementing AI solutions.

53.9% of consumers believe AI could increase the risk of online fraud

Brute force attempts decreased 22% year-over-year.

Within dark web "database" activity, stealer logs comprised 67.12% of advertised/shared datasets, combolists 16.47%, and leaked credentials 5.96%.

Credential-stealer infections were dominated by RedLine with 911,968 infections (50.80%), Lumma with 499,784 infections (27.84%), and Vidar with 236,778 infections (13.19%).

In 2025, nearly 30% of people who reported losing money to a scam said it started on social media

Reported losses for social media scams reached $2.1 billion in 2025. This is about eight times the 2020 figure.

Social media was the most costly fraud contact method last year in terms of aggregate reported losses for every age group under 80, and ranked second after phone calls for those 80 and over.

In 2025, people reported more money lost to scams that started on Facebook than on any other social media platform. WhatsApp and Instagram were a distant second and third.

In 2025 people reported far more money lost to scams on Facebook alone than they reported losing to text or email scams.