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

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

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

In Q3 2025, commerce received 88% of crawler traffic, while the Public Sector received 96%, and Education had the highest fetcher volume at 77%

27% of UK IT leaders in the public sector say they've adopted email security training.

44% of UK IT leaders in the public sector say they've adopted MFA.

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

36% of those in the public sector indicated they are actively evaluating AI tools.

Financial services and the public sector currently report the lowest adoption rates of AI tools, at 21% and 16%, respectively.

Fraudsters were about four times more likely to use stolen identities instead of synthetic identities.

At least 1 in 4 fraud attempts targeted more than one government agency at once.

International bad actors were responsible for up to 12% of all incoming applications for government services and/or loans in the study.

Fraud costs the federal government upwards of $500 billion annually.

38% of public-sector organisations report insufficient resilience, compared to 10% of medium-to-large private-sector organisations.

49% of public-sector organisations indicate they lack the necessary talent to meet their cybersecurity goals, which is a 33% increase from 2024.