64% of security leaders still rely heavily on manual detection, triage, and investigation processes.

Manual work still dominates daily security operations for many teams, with 35% reporting being overwhelmed with repetitive tasks.

19% of security teams rely almost entirely on manual processes.

Over half of organisations (54%) spend more than five hours each week on manual compliance tasks.

The top five vulnerability management problems they’re actively trying to solve with AI today were: false positives (49%), overload of data (39%), reliance on manual processes (33%), disparate results from scanning tools (31%), and false negatives (31%)

Just over a quarter (27.7% of CISOs) think that automation will improve the ROI on existing tools.