Nearly a quarter of IT professionals cite data challenges as the biggest barrier to AI deployment.

92% of organizations have AI installed on at least some local machines with access to SSH and encryption keys.

About 35% of Chief AI Officers identify building, integrating and managing complex AI models in private or sovereign environments as their top barrier to adoption.

52% of global organizations cite legacy infrastructure as a primary blocker to security or AI deployment.

48% of global organizations cite migration complexity as a primary blocker to security or AI deployment.

41% of global organizations rank cost as a primary blocker to security or AI deployment.

50% of organizations cite workflow integration as the biggest barrier to deploying AI in the SOC.

61% of organizations in industrial sectors are deploying AI at scale.

49% of organizations say dispersed, hard-to-normalize data is a key obstacle to deploying AI in the SOC.

85% of CIOs say gaps in traceability or explainability have already delayed or stopped AI projects from reaching production.

1.6% of public sector agencies report broad AI deployment across departments.

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

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