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The Evolution of Cybersecurity Automation and AI Adoption

The Evolution of Cybersecurity Automation and AI Adoption

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The 2025 ThreatQuotient and Securonix research report examines the maturation of cybersecurity automation and the accelerating adoption of AI in security operations, based on a global survey of 750 senior cybersecurity leaders across government, defense, critical infrastructure, retail, and financial services. It finds that automation is now considered business critical by 97 percent of organizations, with growing budgets, improving implementation maturity, and ROI increasingly measured through operational metrics such as mean time to detect and respond. AI adoption is driven primarily by the need to increase productivity rather than reduce costs, with alert triage emerging as the most common entry point. Despite strong board-level pressure to adopt AI, organizations face a leadership para

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