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2024, consistent with the prior year and sharply up from 38 % in 2021.
AI could ease strain on security teams, but lack of expertise is a growing risk
While AI offers critical relief amid ongoing skills shortages, organisations may not yet be fully prepared to harness its potential securely. This year’ s survey found:
While AI offers critical relief amid ongoing skills shortages, organisations may not yet be fully prepared to harness its potential securely.
• Security technology with AI capabilities has been widely adopted. Ninety-seven percent of organisations surveyed are either already using or plan to implement AI-enabled cybersecurity solutions, with threat detection and prevention cited as the top areas of interest.
• AI can help alleviate the burden on shortstaffed security teams. Eighty-seven percent of cybersecurity professionals expect AI to enhance their roles, offering efficiency and relief amid skills shortages.
• While AI can help security teams, teams lack AI skillsets to unlock the technology’ s full potential. A majority of those surveyed( 80 %) say AI is helping their IT and security teams become more effective, but nearly half( 48 %) of IT decision-makers point to a lack of staff with sufficient AI expertise as the biggest challenge to successful implementation. Seventy-six percent of organisations that suffered nine or more cyberattacks in 2024 had AI tools in place, suggesting that adoption alone is not enough without the right expertise.
Carl Windsor, CISO at Fortinet.
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