{"id":240300,"date":"2026-05-06T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/businesses-eager-but-unprepared-for-ai-to-transform-their-security-strategies\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:40:08","slug":"businesses-eager-but-unprepared-for-ai-to-transform-their-security-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/businesses-eager-but-unprepared-for-ai-to-transform-their-security-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Businesses eager but unprepared for AI to transform their security strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/ai-security-zero-trust-identity-zoho\/819455\/\">Businesses eager but unprepared for AI to transform their security strategies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/ai-security-zero-trust-identity-zoho\/819455\/\">https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/ai-security-zero-trust-identity-zoho\/819455\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-06 11:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cybersecuritydive.com\">www.cybersecuritydive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span><span><span><strong><span><span>Dive Brief:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>Businesses are confident that AI will improve their cybersecurity posture, even as they neglect more fundamental security tools like identity management and zero-trust networking, according to <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>a \u201cState of Workforce Password Security\u201d report<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span> that the business software provider Zoho published on Tuesday.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>AI confidence also doesn\u2019t match implementation readiness, the report found, with a massive gap between the share of companies expecting AI to help them with security and the share of companies ready to act on that potential.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>The report also contains data on the share of companies that experienced recent cyberattacks and the business world\u2019s security spending plans.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span><span><span><strong><span><span>Dive Insight:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The gap between AI eagerness and AI readiness was one of the top findings Zoho highlighted in its report. While 90% of survey respondents said AI could strengthen their cyber defenses, only 8% said they were currently ready to deploy AI-powered security tools.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>\u201cAn 82-point gap between belief and deployment readiness defines the most critical inflection point in workforce security,\u201d Zoho said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>At the same time, many businesses don\u2019t have a handle on core cybersecurity practices. Roughly three-quarters of respondents said they lacked complete visibility into their identity ecosystem, meaning they don\u2019t know who has access to which systems. While 36% reported partial visibility, 38% reported limited visibility and 14% said they had no visibility at all.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>\u201cThis \u2018identity visibility gap\u2019 is not a peripheral concern,\u201d Zoho warned. \u201cIt is the central vulnerability enabling unauthorised access, insider threats, and compliance failures.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>On the important metric of zero-trust networking \u2014 the design of systems to anticipate compromise and limit its impact \u2014 roughly two-thirds of businesses said they had no strategy for implementing it. Roughly half of those businesses said they planned to adopt a&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/ai-security-zero-trust-identity-zoho\/819455\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses eager but unprepared for AI to transform their security strategies https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/ai-security-zero-trust-identity-zoho\/819455\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-06&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imgproxy.divecdn.com\/AET96IxCD2G-W_RrZb4h8-o5HmKxqyXnTJ68k48yzUs\/g:ce\/rs:fit:770:435\/Z3M6Ly9kaXZlc2l0ZS1zdG9yYWdlL2RpdmVpbWFnZS9HZXR0eUltYWdlcy0xMzQ3OTYxNDgyLmpwZw==.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,57,27],"class_list":["post-240300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-security","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240300"}],"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=240300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240302,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240300\/revisions\/240302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}