Over 91% of companies sacrifice hybrid cloud security in the AI adoption rush

A startling 91% of organizations admit to making risky security compromises in their hybrid cloud environments under a mounting strain from the growing influence of AI, according to Gigamon’s 2025 Hybrid Cloud Security Survey. As AI adoption surges and hybrid architectures expand, security postures remain dangerously fragmented.

Breach rates have surged 17% year-on-year to 55%, driven largely by AI-powered attacks, according to the study, which polled over 1,000 security and IT leaders across the US, UK, Germany, France, Australia, and Singapore. Among the primary drivers behind these compromises are poor data quality for secure AI workload deployment (46%) and a lack of visibility into East-West traffic movement (47%).

Global cybercrime costs, reaching $10.5 trillion annually by 2025 according to the World Economic Forum, intensify with AI-driven threats. IBM’s 2024 cost of data breach report pegs average incident costs at $4.88 million.

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