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Recent Statistics & Reports

Just 1% of users are responsible for 76% of data loss events.

46% of organizations cite cloud and SaaS data sprawl as a top challenge. ).

31% of organizations say redundant or obsolete data poses significant risk.

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

27% of cloud storage is abandoned (unused data that inflates costs and widens the attack surface).

44% of organizations lack sufficient visibility and controls over GenAI tools.

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

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

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

42% of organizations attribute their most significant data loss events to compromised users.

32% of organizations attribute their most significant data loss events to malicious insiders.

Over a third of organizations worry about sensitive data being used in AI training.

Among enterprises with over 10,000 employees, 41% manage more than a petabyte of data.

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

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

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

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

Healthcare organizations that experienced cloud/account compromises had an average of 21 such compromises in the past two years.

Supply chain attacks against healthcare organizations decreased significantly from 68% in 2024 to 44% in 2025.

72% of healthcare organizations say they experienced an average of 21 cloud/account compromises.

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