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The Security Practitioner's Guide to AI Hype

  • 71% raised the grunt work problem unprompted
  • 3.4/5 average stated AI urgency
  • 14% tie AI-attacker fear to a purchase
  • 100% of frontier-AI users discount the attacker story
Inside pages of The Security Practitioner's Guide to AI Hype whitepaper

Everyone is pricing in the AI attacker. Almost no one is buying the defense.

  • We asked security leaders what really worries them.
  • See where budgets move and the six questions that matter.
  • Skip the hype. Fund what actually closes the gap.