Cisco's 2025 Data Privacy Benchmark Study Highlights AI, Dat...

Cisco unveiled its 2025 Data Privacy Benchmark Study, offering a comprehensive analysis of privacy trends and their profound implications for businesses worldwide. As data privacy remains critical to establishing business value and trust, the study uncovers a complex landscape where the demand for local data storage intersects with reliance on global providers' expertise. Conducted across 12 countries with insights from 2,600 privacy and security professionals, the eighth edition Data Privacy Benchmark Study demonstrates the growing importance of establishing solid data privacy foundations to unleash the full potential of AI. Concerns around safety and security drive data residency decisions. Despite increased operational costs of data localization, 90% of organizations see local storage as inherently safer, while 91% trust global providers for better data protection. These dual data...