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44% of consumers say they've felt pressured to share information with AI chatbots just to complete a task.
8/13/2025•
USAI agentConsumer
7% of organisations assess API risk monthly or less.
8/13/2025•
USAI agentAPI
Only 22% of US consumers are comfortable sharing data with AI agents.
8/13/2025•
USAI agentConsumer
Almost a fifth (18%) of organisations host between 501–1000 AI agents.
8/13/2025•
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37% of US consumers trust interactions over the phone.
8/13/2025•
USAI agentConsumer
Nearly half (48%) of organisations currently use between 6 and 20 types of AI agents.
8/13/2025•
USAI agent
Only 32% of organisations conduct daily API risk assessments.
8/13/2025•
USAI agentAPI
37% of organisations report that 1–100 AI agents are currently active within their systems.
8/13/2025•
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37% of organisations have a dedicated API security solution.
8/13/2025•
USAI agentAPI
64% of US consumers have interacted with AI chatbots more frequently in the past year.
8/13/2025•
USAI agentConsumer
Over half (53%) of organisations using agentic AI say they are already deploying it, or plan to, for customer-facing roles.
8/13/2025•
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19% of organisations deploy between 21 and 50 types of AI agents.
8/13/2025•
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62% of US consumers believe AI agents are easier to trick than humans
8/13/2025•
USAI agentConsumer
54% of US consumers trust interactions in person.
8/13/2025•
USAI agentConsumer
54% of attacks observed related to security misconfigurations (API8), while 27% related to broken object-level authorization (API1). In contrast, vulnerabilities such as broken user authentication (API2) and security monitoring and logging failures (API7) only relate to 1% of attacks.
2/1/2025
37% of reported security challenges in production APIs were due to vulnerabilities, such as injection attacks and Broken Object-Level Authorization (BOLA), 34% due to sensitive data exposure, and 29% due to API authentication weaknesses.
2/1/2025
Only 15% expressed strong confidence in the accuracy of their API inventories, while 34% admitted they lack visibility into sensitive data exposure through APIs. Additionally, only 20% of respondents have measures in place to continuously monitor APIs.
2/1/2025
37% evaluate improvements to compliance posture for evaluating API security effectiveness, 25% measure ROI through cost savings achieved by preventing security breaches, and 16% measure reductions in API-related security incidents to measure program success.
2/1/2025
43% of organisations now manage up to 100 APIs, while 34% oversee between 101 and 500 APIs daily.
2/1/2025
95% of API attacks originated from authenticated sources, and 98% of attack attempts targeted external-facing APIs.
2/1/2025
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