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92% of organizations that experienced a security incident in the past year believe stronger cyber hygiene could have prevented it.

66% of organizations faced a security incident in the past year.

Swimlane11/16/2025

73% of companies rate the impact of cybersecurity incidents as severe or moderate.

CompTIA10/14/2025

57% of Organizations are using observability solutions for managing security incident response.

26% of UK IT leaders in the public sector say they've adopted AI detection.

47% of IT leaders based in Australia cite managing external threats (such as phishing and spoofing) as their top security challenge.

46% of UK IT leaders cited email filtering as the most common defence against email-related incidents.

83% of UK IT leaders report suffering at least one email-related security incident.

73% of US organizations experienced an email-related security incident in the past year.

41% of US organizations still rely on employees to manage their own email signatures.

Only 18% of US organizations use centralized signature management solutions.

86% of US IT leaders agree that professional email signatures build trust.

58% of organizations in the healthcare sector experienced email incidents, yet only 36% feel very confident in their compliance posture.

53% of UK IT leaders in the tech sector say they've adopted MFA.

62% of organizations in the finance sector experienced email incidents, yet only 42% feel very confident in their compliance posture.

59% of UK IT leaders in the tech sector say they've adopted email security training.

41% of UK IT leaders said that AI-driven automation is a trend that will have the biggest impact by 2030.

41% of UK IT leaders said that tighter integration with real-time collaboration tools is a trend that will have the biggest impact by 2030.

45% of UK IT leaders said stronger security and encryption standards is a trend that will have the biggest impact by 2030.

Professionals in high-email-volume sectors like legal and finance send 20-30+ emails daily.

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