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Companies struggle to keep up with the use of AI tools
Nearly two in three audit, GRC and IT decision-makers (62%) say they are worried about employees inputting sensitive data into AI tools, and 59% are concerned about “shadow AI,” employees using unapproved tools, according to a survey by GRC software provider Optro, formerly AuditBoard
The survey of 822 leaders at companies with at least $100 million in annual revenue and 250 employees found that despite their worries about how AI is being used at their companies, only 18% are in organizations where unauthorized AI domains are actively blocked, only 34% have an AI model inventory, and just 31% have AI incident response procedures.
The concerns about AI tools don’t stop there.
“They’re daily behavior patterns happening right now, across every function, in tools often invisible to governance teams,” Optro said in the report on the survey. “And this is directly leading to a significant uptick in AI-enabled attacks.”
Of respondents, 82% reported an increase over the past year of AI-enabled attacks with 39% saying attacks have significantly…
