Rubrik Zero Labs
Reports
All Statistics
More than 80% of IT and security leaders report AI agents require more manual oversight than they save in efficiency.
88% of IT and security leaders say they lack the ability to roll back AI agent actions without system disruption.
86% of IT and security leaders expect AI agents to outpace their organization’s security guardrails within the next year.
58% of organizations cited security concerns as the primary driver for switching IAM providers
58% of IT security decision makers estimate that 50% or more of cyberattacks in the next year will be driven by agentic AI
90% of global leaders identified identity attacks as their top concern in 2025
92% of organizations use between two and five cloud and SaaS platforms.
40% of respondents reported increased security costs as a consequence of a cyber attack.
30% of respondents cite a lack of centralized management as their top challenge.
Nearly half of IT and security leaders expect agentic systems to drive the majority of attacks in the coming year.
Only 23% of IT and security leaders report full visibility into the AI agents operating in their environments.
Nearly nine in ten IT and security leaders express concern about meeting recovery objectives as agent-driven threats increase.
89% of organizations have fully or partially incorporated AI agents into their identity infrastructure, with an additional 10% planning to do so
In 2025, only 28% of IT and security leaders believed they could fully recover from a cyber incident in 12 hours or less, down from 43% in 2024
89% of organizations that experienced a ransomware attack in the past year paid a ransom to recover their data or stop the attack
87% of IT and security leaders plan to change Identity and Access Management (IAM) providers or have already begun the process
89% of organizations plan to hire professionals within the next 12 months to manage or improve identity management, infrastructure, and security
58% of IT and security leaders believe it would take at least two days to recover and achieve full-service operations post-compromise
82% is the ratio of non-human identities (NHIs) to human users, indicating NHIs now outnumber human users by 82 to 1
Of the organizations that experienced a successful ransomware attack last year, 86% admitted they paid a ransom to recover their data.
Half of IT leaders say the majority of their workloads are now cloud-based.
Insider threats were cited by 28% of IT leaders.
27% of high-risk sensitive files contain digital data such as API keys, usernames, and account numbers
The most common attack vectors cited were: Data breaches (30%), Malware on devices (29%), Cloud or SaaS breaches (28%), Phishing (28%), and Insider threats (28%).
90% of global IT and security executives reported cyberattacks in the past year.
37% of respondents noted reputational damage and loss of customer confidence as a consequence of a cyber attack.
33% experienced a forced leadership change following a cyber incident.
90% of IT and security leaders report managing hybrid cloud environments.
Nearly three-quarters (74%) of respondents said threat actors were able to partially compromise backup and recovery systems.
36% of sensitive files in the cloud are classified as high risk.
35% of respondents said their backup and recovery systems were completely compromised.
35% of respondents cite securing data across varied ecosystems as their top challenge.
29% of respondents cite a lack of visibility and control over cloud-based data as their top challenge.