Most organizations need six months or longer to roll out new security controls

Cisco surveyed 8,000 security professionals in 30 markets about how well their organizations defend against AI-era threats, and only 8% landed in the top group. Cisco gave the most weight in its scoring to internal friction, meaning the delays and turf problems inside a company that slow a security team when something changes. Cisco says frontier AI models can find software vulnerabilities at a scale and speed no human team working alone can match.