We surveyed CISOs and senior security leaders across SaaS, IT services, financial services, and fintech. Here's what the data shows.

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• 70% name AI data exposure or sensitive data sprawl as their #1 risk for the next year, ahead of every other category measured.
• Half still call remediation mostly or fully manual, even with a full SIEM, IAM, and EDR stack already in place.
• 0% report full automation. Every remediation workflow still waits on a person to decide and act.
• About 1 in 3 leaders point to ownership, missing context, or a lack of trust in automation, not detection speed or alert volume, as the single challenge they'd eliminate overnight.

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Read the full report for the math behind the bottleneck, why automation has stalled at "assisted," and what security teams actually want automated first.