AI-powered attacks rise as CISOs prioritize AI security risks

AI is creating a range of new cybersecurity challenges for CISOs, from newly effective attacks to newly vulnerable technology platforms.

The issues dominating CISOs’ minds are securing AI agents (which 37% of respondents mentioned) and ensuring that employees’ use of AI tools conforms to security and privacy policies (36%). Beyond AI-powered phishing and malware development, the report shows, executives are also worried about the unintended security consequences of their own companies’ use of AI.

“Boards are pushing aggressively for enterprise-wide [AI] adoption, and security leaders are expected to enable, not block, this transition,” Team8 said in its report. “That puts CISOs in the hot seat: charged with mitigating risk in a technology domain that’s still poorly understood, moving fast, and lacking mature controls.”

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