91% of global organizations plan to implement AI in their tech stack this year, representing a 12-percentage-point increase from the previous year.

16.6% of Managed Service Providers (MSPs) identified a lack of tools as a barrier to fully implementing Microsoft 365 baselines.

40% of Managed Service Providers (MSPs) say operational complexity and lack of integrated tooling are their biggest operational barriers in Microsoft 365 management.

49% say tool complexity is the biggest barrier to maturing their insider risk program.

42% of companies are making greater investment in technology tools.

Nearly 70% of CISOs have consolidated or are consolidating tools into integrated platforms.

13% of CISOs have made plans to consolidate tools into integrated platforms.

Only half of small healthcare practices have phishing or spoofing protection enabled.

58% of security teams report frequent false positives from application security scanners.

11% of security teams say application security false positives happen constantly.

Just 17% of organisations have tools to regularly map threats and contextualise them for full visibility.

Most MSPs use four security tools from four different vendors.

92% of companies use multiple tools for network security.

Nearly one-third of companies use four or more network security tools.

50% of rural healthcare organisations say budget limitations are a top barrier to upgrading security tools, which is nearly double the rate of urban peers.

66% of hotels are investing in VPNs.

72% of hotels are investing in next-gen antivirus, anti-malware, and anti-spam.

70% of hotels are investing in firewalls.

35.2% of financial organizations plan to invest in real-time audit log solutions.

25.1% of financial organizations plan to invest in compliance automation platforms.