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63% of large U.S. companies use a hybrid IT infrastructure with strategic public cloud workloads.

12% of large U.S. companies indicate their companies have undergone a transformation.

78% of large U.S. companies state that data breaches are the greatest generative AI risk that must be addressed within the next 12 months.

34% of organizations plan to begin migrating to PQC within 1-3 years.

21% expect to start migrating to PQC within 3-5 years, attempting to align with the anticipated timeline for quantum threats.

20% of organizations said they have already begun migrating to PQC.

57% of large U.S. companies have not implemented countermeasures to address generative AI security concerns.

75% of large U.S. companies have not implemented a solution to address quantum security threats to legacy data.

60% of companies have not yet deployed or are only planning to deploy solutions to address generative AI data privacy breach risk.

75% of companies say exposure of legacy data is a quantum security risk and 75% have not yet deployed solutions to address that risk.

72% of large U.S. companies identify attacks on legacy data as the greatest quantum security risk.

Only 23% of large U.S. companies have implemented a solution to address Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL) quantum threats.

75% of large U.S. companies say Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL) attacks must be addressed most urgently.

77% of large U.S. companies are concerned about intellectual property theft as a generative AI security risk.

Over 90% of large U.S. companies use AI in daily production operations.

80% of large U.S. companies rank protecting customer data as 'very' or 'critically' important for data sovereignty.

80% of companies say data privacy breaches are the top generative AI security risk.

Over half of organizations considered more cyber-advanced will be safely prepared ahead of the anticipated deadline for quantum threats.

Regarding preferred methods for PQC migration and security measures, 26% of organizations view larger symmetric key sizes as a viable solution.

Regarding preferred methods for PQC migration and security measures, 12% intend to use Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) as an additional security measure.

A cryptanalytically relevant quantum computer capable of breaking common public key schemes is expected by 2030.

Regarding preferred methods for PQC migration and security measures, 20% selected none or other methods, which could include larger asymmetric key sizes or following guidelines from federal cybersecurity institutions

25% have no plans to migrate to PQC.

Regarding preferred methods for PQC migration and security measures, most organisations (63%) showed a preference toward a hybrid approach, which combines classical and post-quantum cryptography.

Regarding preferred methods for PQC migration and security measures, 17% plan to adopt full PQC implementation.