Cybersecurity Dive July 30, 2025
Companies are failing to protect their AI tools from compromise, often leading to more extensive data breaches, according to new data from IBM.
Dive Brief:
- Unmonitored artificial intelligence tools are making data breaches costlier, according to a new report from IBM.
- One in five organizations surveyed said they’d experienced a cyberattack because of security issues with “shadow AI,” and those attacks cost an average of $670,000 more than breaches at firms with little or no shadow AI, IBM said in its annual Cost of Data Breach report.
- According to the report, while only 13% of organizations reported breaches involving AI tools, 97% of those organizations “lacked proper AI access controls.”
Dive Insight:
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