Gartner: 40% of firms to be hit by shadow AI security incidents

By 2030, more than 40% of global organizations will suffer security and compliance incidents due to the use of unauthorized AI tools, Gartner has predicted.

The analyst said a survey of cybersecurity leaders earlier this year revealed that 69% have evidence or suspect that employees are using public generative AI (GenAI) at work.

It warned that such tools can increase the risk of IP loss, data exposure and other security and compliance issues. These should be well understood by now. As far back as 2023, Samsung was forced to ban the use of GenAI internally after staff shared source code and meeting notes with ChatGPT.

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