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All Statistics
90% of organizations experienced at least one insider incident in the past 12 months.
74% of organizations rank negligent insiders as their top concern, surpassing compromised accounts (65%) and malicious insiders (59%).
More than half of insider incidents cost $500,000 or more to remediate.
64% of security leaders still rely heavily on manual detection, triage, and investigation processes.
88% of security leaders say alert volume increased in the past year.
Nearly half of security leaders reported alert volume spikes over 25%.
88% of organizations are concerned about autonomous AI agents operating as non-human insiders with privileged access.
11% of insider incidents exceed $2 million in remediation costs.
57% of organizations report success using AI for alert triage and risk scoring, while 26% report success automating incident response.
54% of organizations acknowledge confirmed or suspected AI-related insider incidents.
45% of organizations classify AI copilots and generative AI tools as insider risk.
53% of organizations say insider attacks are harder to detect than external cyber threats.
One-third of organizations operate five or more insider risk tools, yet 66% still struggle with detection accuracy and 58% cite tool and data fragmentation as a primary challenge.
94% of organizations say AI adoption is increasing their insider risk exposure.
87% of security leaders are deploying, piloting, or evaluating AI-powered SOC tools.
60% of AI adopters have cut investigation times by at least 25%.
73% of security leaders report analyst burnout and staffing shortages.
72% of CISOs are prioritising faster investigations.
Alert fatigue is now a top challenge for 76% of SOCs.
Only 31% of security leaders use AI-powered SOC tools across core detection and response workflows.
78% of security leaders identify social engineering and phishing as their top threat.
73% of security leaders identify identity-based attacks as a top threat.
67% of security leaders lack visibility into access behaviour and lateral movement.