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Recent Statistics & Reports
44% of organizations lack sufficient visibility and controls over GenAI tools.
11/9/2025•
GenAIVisibility
Respondents reported an average of 11 data loss incidents per year, with some organizations experiencing multiple incidents each month.
11/9/2025•
Data loss
46% of organizations cite cloud and SaaS data sprawl as a top challenge. ).
11/9/2025•
Data sprawlCloudSaaS
58% of organizations attribute their most significant data loss events to careless employees or third-party contractors.
11/9/2025•
Data lossInsider riskEmployees
27% of cloud storage is abandoned (unused data that inflates costs and widens the attack surface).
11/9/2025•
Cloud storage
Two-thirds (65%) of organizations have already deployed AI-enhanced data security capabilities to classify data.
11/9/2025•
Data lossAI
32% of organizations flag unsupervised data access by agents as a critical threat.
11/9/2025•
Data lossGenAI
Over a third of organizations worry about sensitive data being used in AI training.
11/9/2025•
Data lossGenAI
42% of organizations attribute their most significant data loss events to compromised users.
11/9/2025•
Data lossCompromised users
Two in five organizations cite data loss via public or enterprise GenAI tools as a top concern.
11/9/2025•
Data lossGenAI
Just 1% of users are responsible for 76% of data loss events.
11/9/2025•
Data loss
31% of organizations say redundant or obsolete data poses significant risk.
11/9/2025•
Redundant dataObsolete dataData risk
Over a quarter (29%) of organizations saw their data grow 30% or more over the past year.
11/9/2025•
Data growth
Resolving a data loss incident can take between one and four weeks for more than one in five organizations (21%).
11/9/2025•
Data loss
64% of organizations rely on six or more data security vendors.
11/9/2025•
Data lossAI training
32% of organizations attribute their most significant data loss events to malicious insiders.
11/9/2025•
Data lossMalicious insiders
Among enterprises with over 10,000 employees, 41% manage more than a petabyte of data.
11/9/2025•
Data
72% of healthcare organizations say their organizations have experienced cloud/account compromises, which is an increase from 69% in 2024.
10/8/2025•
HealthcareCloud compromiseAccount compromise
Healthcare organizations that experienced supply chain attacks, on average, experienced four supply chain attacks in the past two years.
10/8/2025•
HealthcareSupply chain attack
25% of healthcare organizations cite employees sending PII or PHI to an unintended recipient via email as a primary root cause of incidents.
10/8/2025•
HealthcareInsider threat
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