Businesses expand AI’s cybersecurity uses as comfort with technology grows

Dive Brief: Businesses are getting better at securing their AI systems as they spend more time using the technology, the advisory firm KPMG found in its latest quarterly AI survey.

Dive Insight: One of the KPMG report’s key insights is that organizations’ AI maturity levels strongly influence how they use AI in the context of cybersecurity.

Among experimenters, 26% use AI only to monitor systems; among established users, the figure is 4%, reflecting organizations’ growing comfort with plugging AI into more security tasks over time.

Established AI users were also more likely than experimenters to report spending some of their AI budgets on cybersecurity (71% versus 36%).

As businesses see the threat landscape grow more complex, they are racing to update their cybersecurity strategies to account for faster-moving attacks.