35% of IT and cybersecurity leaders are "very concerned" that their organization might be missing real threats/incidents due to the amount of alerts and data they are faced it.

79% of IT and cybersecurity leaders said that external threat intelligence providers should help "uplevel junior staff or embed a threat intelligence (CTI) analyst" into their team.

82% of IT and cybersecurity leaders worry about missing threats due to the volume of alerts and data they are faced with.

Improving efficiency by generating easy-to-read summaries was cited most frequently (69%) by IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

44% of IT and cybersecurity leaders say there still being a lot of manual effort involved is a challenge in actioning threat intelligence.

86% of IT and cybersecurity leaders said that their organisation needs to improve its understanding of the threat landscape.

72% of IT and cybersecurity leaders said they are mostly reactive to threats.

Improving decision-making with more complete, accurate, relevant, and timely information was cited by 59% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

Enhancing trust in the threat intelligence vendor's capabilities to analyze and correlate information was cited by 55% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

47% of IT and cybersecurity leaders are "concerned" that their organization might be missing real threats/incidents due to the amount of alerts and data they are faced it.

85% of IT and cybersecurity leaders say that their organisation could focus more time and energy on emerging critical threats.

Improving the capability to prioritize threats and vulnerabilities was cited by 68% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

66% of IT and cybersecurity leaders state that they struggle to share threat intelligence with relevant teams.

61% of IT and cybersecurity leaders say too many feeds is a challenge in actioning threat intelligence.

Only 22% of sysadmins say their organizations require AI use. This is up from 18% in 2024.

As AI usage expands, reports of AI falling short include troubleshooting (30%) and log analysis (12%).

The majority (73%) of sysadmins still report no requirement for AI use within their organisations.

Concerns about loss of control (60%) continue to slow AI adoption.

Concerns about AI's accuracy (79%) continue to slow adoption.

70% of sysadmins are actively seeking AI-related training.