{"id":889850,"date":"2026-02-03T03:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/how-secure-is-your-business-really-new-survey-claims-90-of-enterprise-ai-systems-could-be-breached-within-90-minutes\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T03:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:12:37","slug":"how-secure-is-your-business-really-new-survey-claims-90-of-enterprise-ai-systems-could-be-breached-within-90-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/how-secure-is-your-business-really-new-survey-claims-90-of-enterprise-ai-systems-could-be-breached-within-90-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"How secure is your business really? New survey claims 90% of enterprise AI systems could be breached within 90 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-widget-type=\"contentparsed\" id=\"content\">\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<picture data-new-v2-image=\"true\"><source type=\"image\/webp\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Representation of AI\"   data-new-v2-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/Wcc69A4Ts8bhSbGgJeGkoZ.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/Wcc69A4Ts8bhSbGgJeGkoZ.jpg\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" fetchpriority=\"high\">\n<\/picture>\n<\/div><figcaption>\n<span>(Image credit: Shutterstock)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<hr id=\"d364020b-04a9-455a-9e6b-84db15e30c60\">\n<ul id=\"f146e23f-ff26-45e7-8a91-b0dacd61ef57\">\n<li><strong>Zscaler warns enterprise AI systems can be breached in under two hours<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>AI adoption surges 91% yearly, with massive corporate data flowing into GenAI tools<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Researchers urge AI-driven Zero Trust defenses against machine-speed attacks<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr id=\"c9969787-3171-4571-bce8-3285d55ffa6c\">\n<p id=\"16f6c5d2-c5b0-434a-9b68-df7716f5ab83\">The risks of embedding <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/best\/best-ai-tools\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/best\/best-ai-tools\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/best\/best-ai-tools\">AI tools<\/a> into business processes without being fully mindful of potential security issues could be far greater than everyone thinks, new research has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Zscaler found many businesses can be breached in less than two hours, and after that &#8211; could lose their sensitive data in mere minutes.<\/p>\n<p id=\"16f6c5d2-c5b0-434a-9b68-df7716f5ab83-2\">\u201cWhen enterprise AI systems are tested under real adversarial conditions, they break almost immediately,\u201d the researchers said, noting how in controlled scans, they were able to find critical vulnerabilities in under 90 minutes for the majority of systems tested (90%). The median time to first critical failure was 16 minutes, and in most extreme cases, the defenses were bypassed in a single second.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"autonomous-machine-speed-attacks-3\">Autonomous, machine-speed attacks<\/h2>\n<p id=\"465588b3-e7c6-4a91-806e-e1ca852527cb\">Despite the grim outlook, AI is being introduced in the enterprise at breakneck speeds. AI and ML activity increased 91% year-on-year, across an ecosystem of more than 3,400 applications.<\/p>\n<p>Finance &#038; Insurance remains the most AI-driven sector by volume, making up almost a quarter (23%) of all AI and ML traffic. Technology, and Education, on the other hand, blew up in usage, 202% and 184%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Enterprise data transfers to AI applications rose 93% year-on-year and hit 18,033 terabytes.<\/p>\n<p>The massive influx of data has transformed tools like Grammarly (3,615 TB) and ChatGPT (2,021 TB) into the \u201cworld\u2019s most concentrated repositories of corporate intelligence\u201d, it was said.<\/p>\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-9mmoKUBgP7NCctBqo4qWUf\">\n<section>\n<p>Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yet businesses are not paying attention to security. Many organizations \u201clack a basic inventory of active AI models and embedded features, leaving them unaware of exactly where sensitive data is exposed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AI is no longer just a productivity tool but a primary vector for autonomous, machine-speed attacks by both crimeware and nation-state,&#8221; said Deepen Desai, EVP Cybersecurity at Zscaler.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the age of Agentic AI, an intrusion can move from discovery to lateral movement to data theft in minutes, rendering traditional defenses obsolete. To win this race, organizations must fight AI with AI by deploying an intelligent Zero Trust architecture that shuts down the potential paths for the attackers of all kinds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr id=\"f46fd962-62fc-4af7-b21e-df595091f1a1\">\n<div id=\"slice-container-person-9mmoKUBgP7NCctBqo4qWUf-YJOJIg0QjFVYXB26ybBc4dPGEhkz7AXO\">\n<figure data-bordeaux-image-check=\"false\">\n<div><picture data-hydrate=\"false\"><source type=\"image\/webp\"   data-normal=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HpHXmtXFPnuzaQ8m9xNW8j.png\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HpHXmtXFPnuzaQ8m9xNW8j.png\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HpHXmtXFPnuzaQ8m9xNW8j.png\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" data-slice-image=\"true\"><source type=\"image\/png\"   data-normal=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HpHXmtXFPnuzaQ8m9xNW8j.png\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HpHXmtXFPnuzaQ8m9xNW8j.png\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HpHXmtXFPnuzaQ8m9xNW8j.png\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" data-slice-image=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Best antivirus software header\"   loading=\"lazy\" data-normal=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HpHXmtXFPnuzaQ8m9xNW8j.png\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HpHXmtXFPnuzaQ8m9xNW8j.png\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HpHXmtXFPnuzaQ8m9xNW8j.png\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" data-slice-image=\"true\"><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"cdd8e80c-0eee-49ee-a436-55c20a26cf98\"><em><\/em><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKAgKIiJDQklTRXdnTWFnOEtEWFJsWTJoeVlXUmhjaTVqYjIwb0FBUAE?hl=en-GB&#038;gl=GB&#038;ceid=GB%3Aen\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKAgKIiJDQklTRXdnTWFnOEtEWFJsWTJoeVlXUmhjaTVqYjIwb0FBUAE?hl=en-GB&#038;gl=GB&#038;ceid=GB%3Aen\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\"><em><strong>Follow TechRadar on Google News<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and<em> <\/em><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=techradar.com\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=techradar.com\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\"><em><strong>add us as a preferred source<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em> to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And of course you can also <\/em><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@techradar\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@techradar\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\"><em><strong>follow TechRadar on TikTok<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em> for news, reviews, unboxings in video form, and get regular updates from us on <\/em><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va6HybZ9RZAY7pIUK12h\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va6HybZ9RZAY7pIUK12h\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\"><em><strong>WhatsApp<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em> too.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" id=\"slice-container-authorBio-9mmoKUBgP7NCctBqo4qWUf\">\n<p>Sead is a seasoned freelance journalist based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He writes about IT (cloud, IoT, 5G, VPN) and cybersecurity (ransomware, data breaches, laws and regulations). In his career, spanning more than a decade, he\u2019s written for numerous media outlets, including Al Jazeera Balkans. He\u2019s also held several modules on content writing for Represent Communications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div x-show=\"$store.Viafoura.showWidgets\" x-cloak data-component-name=\"Viafoura:Comments\" x-data=\"ViafouraComments('300px')\" data-nosnippet data-community-guidelines-text=\"\n\n<p class='vfcustom-community-guidelines'>Please follow our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/about-us#section-community-guidelines\" target=\"_blank\">community guidelines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;><\/p>\n<p>You must confirm your public display name before commenting<\/p>\n<p>Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Zonia Haslett <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/pro\/security\/how-secure-is-your-business-really-new-survey-claims-90-percent-of-enterprise-ai-systems-could-be-breached-within-90-minutes\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Image credit: Shutterstock) Zscaler warns enterprise AI systems can be breached in under two hours AI adoption surges 91% yearly, with massive corporate data flowing into GenAI tools Researchers urge AI-driven Zero Trust defenses against machine-speed attacks The risks of embedding AI tools into business processes without being fully mindful of potential security issues could<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":889851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378,27049],"tags":[8652,11474],"class_list":{"0":"post-889850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-secure","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-secure"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}