IBM & Palo Alto Networks

80% of executives agree they face pressure to reduce the cost of security.

90% of surveyed executives expect to scale, optimise, or innovate with AI within the next two years.

52% of surveyed executives note that the fragmentation of security solutions is limiting their ability to deal with cyber threats.

Surveyed executives estimate that security fragmentation and complexity costs their organisations an average of 5% of their annual revenue.

For platformised organisations, mean time to contain (MTTC) security incidents are shorter by an average of 84 days.

Organisations are juggling an average of 83 different security solutions from 29 vendors.

Organisations can experience nearly 4 times better return on investment (ROI) from their cybersecurity investments by consolidating multiple tools into a unified platform.

7 out of 10 surveyed companies with a high degree of security platformisation report their cybersecurity investments have helped business outcomes.

75% of organisations that have embraced security platformisation agree that better integration across security, hybrid cloud, AI, and other technology platforms is crucial.

4 out of 5 non-platform organisations say their security operations cannot effectively deal with the sheer quantity of threats and attacks.

80% of platformisation adopters say they have full visibility into potential vulnerabilities and threats.

41% of executives say security fragmentation has driven up procurement costs.

For platformised organisations, mean time to identify (MTTI) security incidents is shorter by an average of 72 days.

52% of executives say complexity is the biggest impediment to their cybersecurity operations.