{"id":267492,"date":"2026-06-08T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/report-54-of-cybersecurity-and-it-pros-faced-ai-related-security-incident\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:15:08","slug":"report-54-of-cybersecurity-and-it-pros-faced-ai-related-security-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/report-54-of-cybersecurity-and-it-pros-faced-ai-related-security-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: 54% of cybersecurity and IT pros faced \u2018AI-related security incident\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itbrew.com\/stories\/report-54-of-cybersecurity-pros-faced-ai-related-security-incident\">Report: 54% of cybersecurity and IT pros faced \u2018AI-related security incident\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itbrew.com\/stories\/report-54-of-cybersecurity-pros-faced-ai-related-security-incident\">https:\/\/www.itbrew.com\/stories\/report-54-of-cybersecurity-pros-faced-ai-related-security-incident<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-08 12:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.itbrew.com\">www.itbrew.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-a55d003e-8 ggAaRe\">For an IT pro, is there anything scarier than someone saying, \u201cThere\u2019s been an incident\u201d?<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-a55d003e-8 ggAaRe\">If you want to heighten that fear, imagine it is described as an \u201cAI incident,\u201d which could mean anything from a deleted database to a tricked chatbot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-a55d003e-8 ggAaRe\">Check Point Software Technologies recently surveyed 1,042 cybersecurity and IT professionals around the world and found that more than half had reported an \u201cAI-related security incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-a55d003e-8 ggAaRe\">We asked IT pros to explain what an AI incident means to them, and what a high percentage of those events reveals about the IT industry\u2019s preparedness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-a55d003e-8 ggAaRe\">\u201cThe adoption is outpacing the readiness,\u201d Paul Barbosa, VP of cloud security and SASE at Check Point, told us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-a55d003e-8 ggAaRe\"><strong>Incident response. <\/strong>Check Point\u2019s study, released on May 26, found that 54% of respondents experienced an AI-related security event\u2014and just under a quarter (24%) \u201ccannot confirm due to lack of visibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-a55d003e-8 ggAaRe\">The Check Point report divided incidents into three categories: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unauthorized or shadow AI usage (41%)<\/li>\n<li>AI-generated content used in an attack, such as phishing or deepfakes (37%)<\/li>\n<li>Sensitive data leaked to or through AI services (32%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-a55d003e-8 ggAaRe\">AI incidents are taking many forms lately, from internal accidents to external threat actors. Verizon\u2019s annual Data Breach Investigations Report, which was released on May 19 and studied over 31,000 incidents and 22,000 data breaches between November 2024 and November 2025, revealed similar trends in shadow AI and GenAI-assisted attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-a55d003e-8 ggAaRe\">Regarding unauthorized use of AI tools, Verizon\u2019s investigations report found that over two-thirds (67%) of users are employing non-corporate accounts on their corporate devices to access AI services. Additionally, users are submitting sensitive information to GenAI models. Top data types discovered include source code, images, and structured data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-a55d003e-8 ggAaRe\">In terms of AI-assisted attacks, Verizon (coordinating with AI company Anthropic) discovered threat actors sought AI assistance for approximately 15&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itbrew.com\/stories\/report-54-of-cybersecurity-pros-faced-ai-related-security-incident\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report: 54% of cybersecurity and IT pros faced \u2018AI-related security incident\u2019 https:\/\/www.itbrew.com\/stories\/report-54-of-cybersecurity-pros-faced-ai-related-security-incident Publish Date: 2026-06-08&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/bl383u0v\/production\/360e298b73707b8dde8a825934b41fb91b7550e2-6251x4167.jpg?rect=0,442,6251,3282&w=1200&h=630&q=70&fit=crop&auto=format","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,30,25,57],"class_list":["post-267492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-breach","tag-phishing","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267492"}],"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=267492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267495,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267492\/revisions\/267495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}