17.7% of teams at financial organizations report spending 25+ hours monthly on gathering data for audits and access reviews.

0.3% of financial organizations surveyed admitted to having failed an audit in the past year.

Only 4.8% of teams at financial organizations spend fewer than five hours on gathering data for audits and access reviews.

88.4% of financial organizations surveyed are "very confident" in passing a surprise compliance audit.

Only 0.2% of financial organizations surveyed reported lacking confidence in passing a surprise compliance audit.

49.3% of teams at financial organizations spend 10–25 hours monthly preparing audit data.

62% say their audit evidence-gathering process is at least occasionally error-prone.

On average, just 39% of the audit evidence process is automated.

More than one-third (37.2% of CISOs) said that no platform has demonstrated its reliability for Compliance as Code.

Of the 1.8 million breached administrator credentials, 40,000 admin portal accounts had the password ‘admin’.