Report by F5
2025 State of AI Application Strategy Report: AI Readiness
Key Findings
21% of companies have low-readiness for AI.
70% of "moderately ready for AI" organizations have generative AI in active use.
Low-readiness 9for AI) organizations use AI in less than one-quarter of their apps.
Just 24% of organizations practice continuous data labeling.
Only 18% of moderately ready organizations have deployed an AI firewall.
On average, 25% of apps use AI, with "highly ready for AI" organizations typically using AI in a much higher percentage.
Only 31% of organizations have deployed AI firewalls.
"Moderately ready for AI" organizations currently have AI present in about one-third of applications.
77% of companies are moderately ready for AI.
Only 2% of global organizations are highly ready to scale AI securely across operations.
Nearly two-thirds of survey respondents (65%) use two or more paid AI models and at least one open-source model.
71% of all respondents already use AI to augment security.
47% of moderately ready organizations aim to have deployed an AI firewall within a year.
The average organization uses three AI models.