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### **99%** of orgs have encountered an attack on an AI system in the past year.

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### **41%** of organizations have experienced a surge in attacks on APIs.

*![logo alt](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/content/dam/pan/en_US/images/cloud-native-sec-rep/icon-industry.svg)* 53%

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### **89%** of orgs say cloud and application security must be fully integrated with the SOC.

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### **30%** of teams take over a day to resolve an incident.

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### **97%** of orgs prioritize consolidating their cloud security footprint.

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