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49% of security leaders in government, defense, and critical services cite ensuring data integrity and preventing tampering in transit as their single biggest challenge when transferring information across classified or coalition networks.

45% of security leaders in government, defense, and critical services cite managing identity and authentication across multiple domains as the biggest challenge to securing access to mission data.

84% of government IT security leaders agree that sharing sensitive data across networks heightens their cyber risk.

53% of government IT security leaders rely on manual data transfer processes.

National security organizations faced an average of 137 attempted or successful cyberattacks per week in 2025, up from 127 cyberattacks per week in 2024.

78% of security leaders in government, defense, and critical services cite outdated infrastructure as a primary source of cyber vulnerability.

Cyberattacks against agencies in the U.S. have surged 25% in the last year and occur more frequently on a weekly basis than in the UK.

33% of IT security directors plan to implement Hardsec technology.

Almost all (97%) highly regulated organizations reported a cyber incident between October 2023 and 2024.

74% of IT Security Directors in regulated industries in the US and UK who were surveyed found detection-based security technologies outdated and inadequate.

30% of IT security directors plan to implement Advanced Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) solutions.

36% of IT security directors report stretched budgets are a barrier.

27% of IT security directors plan to implement User Activity Monitoring (UAM).

39% of IT security directors cited their inability to keep up with the rapidly evolving threat landscape as the biggest barrier to adopting preventative approaches.

62% of IT security directors agree that AI and emerging malicious actor trends are increasing attack sophistication.