Overview
- Only 46% of respondents correctly identified an AI‑written phishing email, underscoring detection difficulty across age groups.
- Forty-four percent said they interacted with at least one phishing message in the past year.
- Gen Z reported the highest engagement with phishing at 62%, compared with 51% of millennials, 33% of Gen X, and 23% of baby boomers.
- Passwords and SMS remain dominant while less than half of companies use multi‑factor authentication across all applications and nearly one‑third of personal email users skip MFA.
- Forty percent of employees reported receiving no cybersecurity training, and half were logged into work accounts on personal devices.