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Security Engineer accounted for 18% of cybersecurity job postings across G7 economies and lead other roles by share.

Cybersecurity Engineer / Analyst accounted for 16% of cybersecurity job postings across G7 economies.

Cloud Security Engineer accounted for 9% of cybersecurity job postings across G7 economies.

Eight of 15 models have an absolute cross-regime gap greater than 15 percentage points.

Multi-turn attack success rate (ASR) ranges from 7.89% to 88.30% across the 15 closed/proprietary flagship models in the cohort.

Single-turn attack success rate (ASR) ranges from 2.19% to 64.91% across the 15 closed/proprietary flagship models in the cohort.

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

48% of organizations in industrial sectors identify security as their biggest networking challenge.

85% of organizations in industrial sectors expect AI to improve their cybersecurity posture.

72% of all organizations surveyed are at least moderately prepared to control and secure agentic AI systems.

84% of Pacesetters (most AI-ready group) control agent actions with guardrails and live monitoring vs 24% of all companies.

Talent gaps are most acute in the area of cybersecurity for AI, affecting 60% of all companies surveyed.

61% say secure networking is critical.

94% believe an improved network will enhance their cybersecurity posture.

One severe outage per business per year, often driven by factors including cyberattacks, adds up to $160B globally.

86% of organizations continue to face the challenge of a shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals. More than half of these organizations report having more than ten positions to fill.

85% of organizations use AI for threat detection.

84% of organizations face increased security risks as employees access networks from unmanaged devices within hybrid work models.

96% of privacy and security professionals confirm that privacy investments provide returns exceeding costs.

91% of organisations trust global providers for better data protection, which is up five percentage points year-over-year.

86% of respondents noted a positive impact of privacy legislation on their organisations, up from 80% last year.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance Analyst accounted for 6% of cybersecurity job postings across G7 economies.

Cybersecurity job demand across G7 economies grew 6.8% in April–September 2025 compared to the same period a year earlier.

SOC Analyst accounted for 12% of cybersecurity job postings across G7 economies.

The share of G7 cybersecurity job postings requiring AI skills averaged 28.5% in October 2025–March 2026, up from 14.2% in October 2024–March 2025.

Cybersecurity job demand across G7 economies grew 9.5% in the period October 2025–March 2026 compared to the same six months a year earlier.

Application Security Engineer and Identity and Access Management Engineer each accounted for 7% of cybersecurity job postings across G7 economies.

Threat Intelligence Analyst accounted for 5% of cybersecurity job postings across G7 economies.

Gemini 3 Pro shifts from 18.10% single-turn ASR to 73.35% multi-turn ASR, a 4x increase.

Cross-regime deltas (multi-turn ASR minus single-turn ASR) range from −34.74 percentage points to +55.25 percentage points across the cohort.

Nova 2 Lite shows 34.05% single-turn ASR but 7.89% multi-turn ASR.

Enabling reasoning on Grok 4.1 Fast reduces multi-turn ASR from 88.30% to 43.47%.

Within each multi-turn attack strategy family, the spread between the most- and least-exposed models ranges from 79.51 to 89.25 percentage points.

Multi-turn attack success rates run 2x to 10x higher than single-turn baselines across eight open-weight LLMs in an earlier evaluation.

Imposter AI is more than 14 percentage points higher than the tenth-ranked procedure by weighted ASR.

Anthropic Claude-family single-turn ASR ranges from 2.19% to 3.64%, and multi-turn ASR ranges from 11.16% to 16.20%.

Grok 4.1 Fast in its non-reasoning configuration records a multi-turn ASR of 88.30%.

In an earlier open-weight evaluation, multi-turn ASR reached 92.78% against Mistral Large-2.

GPT-5.4 moves from 2.74% single-turn ASR to 24.68% multi-turn ASR, a 9x increase.

Imposter AI procedures produce a 37.50% weighted single-turn ASR, Soft Paraphrase produces 29.21%, and System Prompts produce 27.69%.

40% of organizations in industrial sectors cite cybersecurity concerns as a top obstacle to AI adoption.

75% of Pacesetters (the most AI-ready group) report having the capacity to fully secure agentic AI systems that make decisions independently.

55% of organizations surveyed prioritize defending models and data from tampering.

Less than a third (31%) of organizations surveyed report that they are fully equipped to control and secure agentic AI systems.

84% of Pacesetters (most AI-ready group) report full capability with end-to-end encryption for sensitive data, versus 30% of all companies.

74% of Pacesetters (most AI-ready group) report full capability with dynamic & granular access controls for AI systems and datasets, versus 27% of all companies.

Only 29% of all companies have fully integrated AI into security and identity systems, compared to 62% of Pacesetters (most AI-ready group).

81% of Pacesetters (most AI-ready group) report full capability to detect and prevent unauthorized tampering, compared to 29% of all companies.

87% of Pacesetters (most AI-ready group) report awareness of AI-specific threats, compared to 42% of all companies.

51% of organizations surveyed focus on recruiting the right talent to manage AI-specific cybersecurity threats.