Security pros are cautiously optimistic about AI
Cloud Security Alliance and Google Cloud | The State of AI and Security Survey Report | April 2024
- 55% of organizations plan to adopt GenAI solutions within this year, signaling a substantial surge in GenAI integration.
- 48% of professionals expressed confidence in their organization’s ability to execute a strategy for leveraging AI in security.
- 12% of security professionals believe AI will completely replace their role.
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AI abuse and misinformation campaigns threaten financial institutions
FS-ISAC | Navigating Cyber 2024 | March 2024
- Threat actors can use generative AI to write malware and more skilled cybercriminals could exfiltrate information from or inject contaminated data into the large language models (LLMs) that train GenAI.
- Recent quantum computing and AI advancements are expected to challenge established cryptographic algorithms.
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Enterprises increasingly block AI transactions over security concerns
Zscaler | AI Security Report 2024 | March 2024
- Today, enterprises block 18.5% of all AI transactions, a 577% increase from April to January, for a total of more than 2.6 billion blocked transactions.
- Some of the most popular AI tools are also the most blocked. Indeed, ChatGPT holds the distinction of being both the most-used and most-blocked AI application.
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Scammers exploit tax season anxiety with AI tools
McAfee | Tax Scams Study 2024 | March 2024
- Of the people who clicked on fraudulent links from supposed tax services, 68% lost money. Among those, 29% lost more than $2,500, and 17% lost more than $10,000.
- 9% of Americans feel confident in their ability to spot deepfake videos or recognize AI-generated audio, such as fake renditions of IRS agents.
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Advanced AI, analytics, and automation are vital to tackle tech stack complexity
Dynatrace | The state of observability 2024 | March 2024
- 97% of technology leaders find traditional AIOps models are unable to tackle the data overload.
- 88% of organizations say the complexity of their technology stack has increased in the past 12 months, and 51% say it will continue to increase.
- 72% of organizations have adopted AIOps to reduce the complexity of managing their multicloud environment.
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Today’s biggest AI security challenges
HiddenLayer | AI Threat Landscape Report 2024 | March 2024
- 98% of companies surveyed view some of their AI models as vital for business success, and 77% have experienced breaches in their AI systems over the past year.
- 61% of IT leaders acknowledge shadow AI, solutions that are not officially known or under the control of the IT department, as a problem within their organizations.
- Researchers revealed the extensive use of AI in modern businesses, noting an average of 1,689 AI models actively used by companies. This has made AI security a top priority, with 94% of IT leaders dedicating funds to safeguard their AI in 2024.
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AI tools put companies at risk of data exfiltration
Code42 | Annual Data Exposure Report 2024 | March 2024
- Since 2021, there has been a 28% average increase in monthly insider-driven data exposure, loss, leak, and theft events.
- While 99% of companies have data protection solutions in place, 78% of cybersecurity leaders admit they’ve still had sensitive data breached, leaked, or exposed.
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95% believe LLMs making phishing detection more challenging
LastPass | LastPass survey 2024 | March 2024
- More than 95% of respondents believe dynamic content through Large Language Models (LLMs) makes detecting phishing attempts more challenging.
- Phishing will remain the top social engineering threat to businesses throughout 2024, surpassing other threats like business email compromise, vishing, smishing or baiting.
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How AI is reshaping the cybersecurity job landscape
ISC2 | AI Cyber 2024 | February 2024
- 88% of cybersecurity professionals believe that AI will significantly impact their jobs, now or in the near future, and 35% have already witnessed its effects.
- 75% of respondents are moderately to extremely concerned that AI will be used for cyberattacks or other malicious activities.
- The survey revealed that 12% of respondents said their organizations had blocked all access to generative AI tools in the workplace.
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Businesses banning or limiting use of GenAI over privacy risks
Cisco | Cisco 2024 Data Privacy Benchmark Study | February 2024
- 63% have established limitations on what data can be entered, 61% have limits on which employees can use GenAI tools, and 27% said their organization had banned GenAI applications altogether for the time being.
- Despite the costs and requirements privacy laws may impose on organizations, 80% of respondents said privacy laws have positively impacted them, and only 6% said the impact has been negative.
- 91% of organizations recognize they need to do more to reassure their customers that their data was being used only for intended and legitimate purposes in AI.
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Unlocking GenAI’s full potential through work reinvention
Accenture | Work, workforce, workers: Reinvented in the age of generative AI | January 2024
- While 95% of workers see value in working with GenAI, 60% are also concerned about job loss, stress and burnout.
- 47% of reinventors are already thinking bigger—recognizing that their processes will require significant change to fully leverage GenAI.
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Adversaries exploit trends, target popular GenAI apps
Netskope | Cloud and Threat Report 2024 | January 2024
- In 2023, ChatGPT was the most popular generative AI application, accounting for 7% of enterprise usage.
- Half of all enterprise users interact with between 11 and 33 cloud apps each month, with the top 1% using more than 96 apps per month.
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