- Thales survey more than 3,000 experts in IT about generative
- The researchers found a lot of concern for security.
- Despite concerns, companies are accelerating adoption
Despite seeing it as an important promoter of innovation, companies are overwhelmingly concerned about the security threats of artificial intelligence (AI). This is according to the Data Threat of Thales 2025, the company’s annual report on the latest data safety threats, trends and emerging issues.
Based on a survey of more than 3,100 IT and security professionals in 20 countries and in 15 industries, the Thales report found that almost 70% of organizations see the rapid advance of AI as their greatest security risk. The generative AI, which can create text and images from simple text indications, is a particular concern.
The deepest drilling in these ideas, integrity and reliability arise as important challenges. Almost two thirds (64%) of respondents care about the lack of integrity of AI, while 57% cited “reliability” as an important challenge. In addition, given that the different functions of Genai, such as training, inference or content generation, depend on the data provided by the user, respondents expressed their concerns about increasing exposure to data security risks.
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Regardless of these concerns, organizations are still accelerating their adoption, explains that the report suggests that this puts them at an unnecessary risk. In fact, a third of the companies are actively integrating Genai into operations despite not guaranteeing the complete security of their systems. Genai spending has become one of the key priorities for organizations, only surpassed by cloud security.
“Genai’s panorama of rapid evolution is pressing companies to move quickly, sometimes at the expense of caution, since they run to stay at the forefront of the adoption curve,” said Eric Hanselman, head analyst of S&P Global Market Intelligence 451 Research. “Many companies are implementing Genai faster than their application architectures can completely understand, aggravated by the rapid propagation of SAAS tools that incorporate Genai’s capabilities, adding layers of complexity and risk.”
Almost three quarters (73%) of professionals reported having invested in specific security tools with new or existing budgets, the Thales report concluded.
