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Gigamon 2026 Survey: AI Now Drives 83 Percent of Breaches as Attackers Outpace Defenders
Only 30% of breached organizations said they had the tools to respond effectively, underscoring a gap between AI security confidence and capability.
- A survey of 1,023 global respondents commissioned by Gigamon and Vitreous World found that 65 percent of organizations experienced a security breach in the past year, revealing a critical gap between investment and outcomes.
- Attackers leverage AI-driven tools to operate at scale, leaving defenders struggling to secure hybrid networks due to visibility gaps in East-West traffic and encrypted environments.
- While 94 percent of organizations report AI-driven tools autonomously initiate security functions, only 30 percent of those experiencing a breach possessed the necessary tools to respond effectively, demonstrating misalignment between capability and confidence.
- Boardroom support for deep observability initiatives has surged, with 90 percent of leaders reporting that their boards now prioritize these modern security approaches to defend against today's AI-driven threats.
- Eighty-Seven percent of organizations fear "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks, putting today's encrypted data at future risk and revealing long-term implications of current visibility gaps in defending against AI-driven threats.
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AI involved in 83 percent of security breaches
AI is now involved in 83 percent of reported security breaches, enabling attackers to operate with greater speed and scale than many organizations can defend against, according to a new survey of more than 1,000 global security and IT leaders. The report, from observability specialist Gigamon, finds that despite expanded investments in tools and governance policies, 65 percent of organizations experienced a breach in the past year, reflecting an…
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