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59% of security leaders report having experienced or strongly suspect an AI-related security incident.

69% of security leaders agree identity management must fundamentally change to support AI safely.

85% of security leaders are concerned about AI-related infrastructure risk.

70% of security leaders say AI systems have more access than a human in the same role.

Organizations with over-privileged AI systems have a 76% incident rate, compared to a 17% incident rate for organizations that limit AI to only the privileges needed for the task.

92% of organizations have near-term AI initiatives in production infrastructure.

Relying on static credentials for AI systems correlates with a 20-percentage-point increase in incident rates.

7% of organizations don't know how often AI is making autonomous infrastructure changes at all.

Only 3% of organizations have automated, machine-speed controls governing AI behavior.

79% of organizations are evaluating or deploying agentic AI, yet only 13% of organizations feel highly prepared for it.

Organizations most confident in their AI deployments experience more than twice the incident rate of less confident peers.

Enterprises deploying AI systems with excessive permissions experience 4.5x more security incidents than enterprises that enforce least-privilege controls.

67% of organizations rely on static credentials for AI systems.

43% of organizations say AI makes infrastructure changes without human oversight at least monthly.