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Roughly 29% of reviewed iOS shopping apps access user data without declaring it in their App Store Privacy Overview.

51% of firms identified data discovery as a top priority for improving audit readiness and control visibility.

65% of leaders have modified their strategies in response to new data sovereignty regulations.

Kyndryl11/16/2025

Data breaches accounted for 17.4% of cyber incidents affecting public administration in the EU in 2024.

24% of global organizations indicated that costs from identity-related breaches exceeded $10 million, a three-percentage-point increase from the previous year.

Only 56% of Japanese respondents reported experiencing an identity-related breach in the past three years.

Identity-related breaches impacted 69% of global organizations in 2026, up from 42% the previous year.

69% of global organizations experienced an identity-related breach in the last three years, marking a 27-percentage-point increase from the previous year.

62% of retailers who experienced attacks restored their data using backups in 2025, the lowest rate in four years

58% of organizations attribute their most significant data loss events to careless employees or third-party contractors.

Over a quarter (29%) of organizations saw their data grow 30% or more over the past year.

Proofpoint11/9/2025

Two-thirds (65%) of organizations have already deployed AI-enhanced data security capabilities to classify data.

64% of organizations rely on six or more data security vendors.

97% of security and IT pros surveyed believe behavioral AI can help prevent accidental data loss before it occurs.

Resolving a data loss incident can take between one and four weeks for more than one in five organizations (21%).

Proofpoint11/9/2025

96% of organizations surveyed experienced data loss or exposure from misdirected email in the past year.

Two in five organizations cite data loss via public or enterprise GenAI tools as a top concern.

Respondents reported an average of 11 data loss incidents per year, with some organizations experiencing multiple incidents each month.

Proofpoint11/9/2025

47% of retail IT/cybersecurity teams reported increased pressure after experiencing data encryption in 2025

32% of organizations flag unsupervised data access by agents as a critical threat.

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