62% of U.S. organizations have not deployed a Zero Trust strategy, three percentage points lower than the global average.

18% of higher education institutions are fully aligned with Zero Trust principles.

68% of healthcare and manufacturing organizations are pursuing microsegmentation as part of a Zero Trust strategy.

31% of IT leaders at higher education institutions cite infrastructure complexity as the leading barrier to Zero Trust implementation.

Microsegmentation accounts for 24% of currently deployed Zero Trust initiatives.

58% of US IT and security professionals at companies with at least 1,000 employees have adopted Zero Trust principles.

Organizations in manufacturing and critical infrastructure sectors implementing all five core Zero Trust principles reach visibility levels not achieved through tooling alone.

78% of CISOs lack a formal strategy for handling AI identities in a zero trust security architecture in 2025.

16% of cybersecurity professionals in the United States reported that their organizations are fully prepared to handle AI-enhanced attacks in 2025.

50% of cybersecurity professionals in the United Kingdom identified phishing as the top identity-based threat in 2025.

At Infosecurity Europe, 18% of cybersecurity professionals reported fully implemented zero-trust frameworks in 2025.

44% of cybersecurity professionals reported fully implemented zero-trust frameworks at it-sa in Germany in 2025.

50% of cybersecurity professionals in Germany reported that their organizations lack a dedicated Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution in 2025.

27% of cybersecurity professionals reported fully implemented zero-trust frameworks at Black Hat USA in 2025.

40% of cybersecurity professionals in the United States reported that Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is not consistently enforced for privileged accounts in 2025.

Only 12% of cybersecurity professionals in the United Kingdom reported that their organizations are fully prepared to handle AI-enhanced attacks in 2025.

45% of cybersecurity professionals in the United States cited phishing as their greatest risk in 2025.

61% of cybersecurity professionals in Germany identified deepfakes as the most significant identity-based threat in 2025.

28% of cybersecurity professionals in Germany reported that their organizations are fully prepared to handle AI-enhanced attacks in 2025.

43% of cybersecurity professionals in the United Kingdom reported that Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is not consistently enforced for privileged accounts in 2025.