{"id":207384,"date":"2026-01-28T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/ai-security-threats-loom-as-enterprise-usage-jumps-91\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T10:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:45:15","slug":"ai-security-threats-loom-as-enterprise-usage-jumps-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/ai-security-threats-loom-as-enterprise-usage-jumps-91\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Security Threats Loom as Enterprise Usage Jumps 91%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/ai-security-threats-loom-zscaler\/\">AI Security Threats Loom as Enterprise Usage Jumps 91%<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/ai-security-threats-loom-zscaler\/\">https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/ai-security-threats-loom-zscaler\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-28 06:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.infosecurity-magazine.com\">www.infosecurity-magazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI adoption is accelerating faster than enterprise oversight, creating a rapidly widening attack surface across all sectors, said Zscaler in its ThreatLabz 2026 AI Security Report.<\/p>\n<p>The annual report, published on January 27, 2026, analyzed 989.3 billion AI and machine learning transactions across the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform between January and December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The cybersecurity firm found that despite a 91% AI usage growth across an ecosystem of more than 3400 AI applications, many organizations still lack a basic inventory of AI models and embedded AI features.<\/p>\n<p>Finance and insurance remain the most AI-driven sectors by volume, together accounting for 23% of all AI\/ML traffic, while the technology and education sectors recorded explosive year-over-year growth in AI transactions (202% and 184%, respectively).<\/p>\n<p>Departments that used AI the most were engineering, which represented 48.9% of all AI usage, followed by IT (31.8%) and marketing (6.9%).<\/p>\n<p>Year-over-year comparison of AI\/ML transactions (January\u2013December 2025). Source: Zscaler, ThreatLabz 2026 AI Security Report<\/p>\n<p>Enterprise AI activity observed by Zscaler was largely concentrated in the US, which accounted for 38% of transactions, followed by India (14%) and Canada (5%).<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI services was the top LLM vendor recorded every month of 2025, followed by Codelium and Perplexity.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the uptick in AI usage, Zscaler analysts found critical vulnerabilities in 100% of AI systems and applications observed, with 90% of systems compromised in under 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The median time to first critical failure was just 16 minutes, with some of these AI flaws in a single second.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Enterprise AI Apps Drive Data Privacy Violations<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Additionally, in parallel with a surge in AI usage, Zscaler reported a staggering 18,033 TB of enterprise data transferred to AI\/ ML applications, a 93% year-over-year rise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe massive influx has transformed tools like Grammarly (3,615 TB) and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/ai-security-threats-loom-zscaler\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Security Threats Loom as Enterprise Usage Jumps 91% https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/ai-security-threats-loom-zscaler\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-28 06:45:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.infosecurity-magazine.com\/webpage\/og\/91e78484-d9c8-4d72-a5bc-f0085a41b4d7.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,24,17],"class_list":["post-207384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-cybersecurity","tag-llm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207386,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207384\/revisions\/207386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}