50% of SMBs feel overwhelmed by the number of cybersecurity tools on the market.

Over half of CIOs say their security patch systems have become too complex to manage effectively.

41% of CIOs don't believe their current security investments fully meet their organization's needs.

Just 43% of global organizations use dedicated tools to proactively manage risk across their attack surface.

Over half of CIOs believe they have overinvested in security patch systems.

More than four in five security professionals (84%) prefer security tools powered by artificial intelligence.

20% of SMBs have no access to cyber technology at all.

29% of SMBs have deployed endpoint security.

33% of SMBs have outdated cyber technology.

22% of SMBs have deployed dark web monitoring.

50% of SMB tech stacks include antivirus software.

44% of SMB tech stacks include firewalls.

47% of SMB tech stacks include network scanning.

1 in 5 respondents reporting that 75% or more of their tool stack promotes AI capabilities

46% of security teams primarily depend on AI that is embedded in their security tools and delivered by their vendors versus building their own

For platformised organisations, mean time to identify (MTTI) security incidents is shorter by an average of 72 days.

80% of platformisation adopters say they have full visibility into potential vulnerabilities and threats.

For platformised organisations, mean time to contain (MTTC) security incidents are shorter by an average of 84 days.

52% of executives say complexity is the biggest impediment to their cybersecurity operations.

7 out of 10 surveyed companies with a high degree of security platformisation report their cybersecurity investments have helped business outcomes.