Ransomware deployment speed increased by 48% as observed in 2025

51% of data and IT leaders would shift their AI/ML deployment strategy for better data sovereignty/compliance

53% of data and IT leaders would shift their AI/ML deployment strategy for enhanced security.

When combined with configuration and deployment errors, security breaches account for 34% of outages.

The majority of organizations (55%) say that they’ve enabled AI in under half the tools in their environments that have it available

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

21% say they apply AI to security through a mix of vendor-led and internal AI.

Just a fraction of respondents said that their tools come trained and/or tuned — 5%

Approximately 19% say they primarily apply AI to security through their own internal data science work

35% of enterprises are just beginning their AI journey.

12% of enterprises are waiting for security controls to be ready before deploying AI.

54% of enterprises report engaging in multiple AI deployments.

48% of enterprises report implementing specific security controls for AI deployments.