58% of CISOs say AI is influencing their security stack consolidation strategy.

3% of CISOs are actively consolidating their security stack due to AI.

35% of internal audit functions report extensive use of AI in audit planning and 33% report occasional use.

35% of internal audit functions report extensive use of AI in reporting and 34% report occasional use.

83% of internal audit leaders expect their internal audit function to increase AI usage over the next year.

79% of organizations are evaluating or deploying agentic AI, yet only 13% of organizations feel highly prepared for it.

92% of organizations have near-term AI initiatives in production infrastructure.

25% of internal audit functions report extensive use of AI in risk assessment and 39% report occasional use.

19% of internal audit functions report extensive use of AI in fieldwork and 39% report occasional use.

74% of CIOs regret at least one major AI vendor or platform selection made in the past 18 months.

57% of public sector agencies are actively exploring and learning about AI.

16% of public sector agencies are piloting small AI projects.

OpenAI is present in 96.0% of organizations, with Anthropic present in 77.8% of organizations.

17% of prompts include copy/paste and/or file upload activity.

Agent tools Manus, Lindy, and Agent.ai are present in 22%, 11%, and 8% of organizations respectively.

Among the most active chat tools observed, OpenAI accounts for 67% of prompt volume.

99.6% of organizations are moving toward AI.

90% of leaders see productivity gains from AI.

40% of organizations believe they are AI mature, but only 22% possess the objective IT foundation required to scale AI safely.

40% of IT leaders self-assess as mature in their AI practices, yet only 22% meet objective standards for leading AI readiness.