SAN JOSE, Calif., July 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The ace to adopt A tificial I tellige ce (AI) has t igge ed a u p ecede ted data secu ity c isis, with AI isks officially eclipsi g t aditio al data theft as the p ima y d ive fo co po ate secu ity i vestme ts. To u cove how o ga izatio s a e adapti g to these eme gi g isks, Skyhigh Secu ity, the leade i data-ce t ic Secu ity Se vice Edge (SSE), co ducted ew esea ch i pa t e ship with E te p ise Ma ageme t Associates (EMA), a leadi g IT esea ch a d co sulti g fi m, a d p oduced a epo t titled “Leve agi g DSPM a d A tificial I tellige ce to Solve Data Secu ity Challe ges.”
D ive by the apid deployme t of AI a d age tic systems, e te p ise data e vi o me ts a e expa di g faste tha legacy secu ity tools ca t ack. To u de sta d how o ga izatio s a e avigati g this f ictio , EMA su veyed 225 IT, secu ity, a d data gove a ce leade s ac oss No th Ame ica e te p ises to a alyze eme gi g p io ities a d the baseli e capabilities equi ed fo mode data secu ity.
Amo g the study’s most sig ifica t fi di gs,
“This data should se ve as a massive wake-up call fo the i dust y: visibility alo e is a losi g st ategy,” said Sa jay Casteli o, p eside t at Skyhigh Secu ity. “Discove i g whe e you data lives is just the sta ti g poi t. If you ca ’t e fo ce policies a d apply i li e p otectio i eal time as data moves ac oss use s, cloud se vices, a d AI applicatio s, you a e ’t actually secu i g a ythi g. Skyhigh Secu ity is b idgi g that gap by tu i g DSPM i sights i to active, immediate e fo ceme t.”
The esea ch suggests these custome challe ges a e becomi g u ive sal ac oss the e te p ise, with o ga izatio s placi g g eate emphasis o visibility, gove a ce, a d eal-time p otectio as AI adoptio g ows.
“The e a of t eati g data secu ity as a complia ce exe cise is ove ,” said Ch istophe Steffa , VP of Resea ch at EMA. “Ou esea ch shows that discove i g whe e se sitive data esides, u de sta di g how it is bei g used, a d e fo ci g automated emediatio a d i li e p otectio have become busi ess impe atives as e te p ises ace to deploy AI a d age tic systems. O ga izatio s that fail to establish a st o g data secu ity fou datio befo e scali g AI i itiatives isk c eati g challe ges that will be fa mo e difficult to add ess dow the oad.”
The epo t also exposes a wide i g gap betwee passive complia ce auditi g a d the agg essive, eal-time co t ols equi ed to su vive the AI boom. Additio al takeaways i clude:
Sto age Silos C eate G idlock : 58.2% of espo de ts ide tify e c yptio key ow e ship a d localized co t ol as top co ce s whe maki g sto age a chitectu e decisio s—the si gle highest- ated co st ai t i the esea ch.Visibility is i Dema d: 57.8% of espo de ts epo t that AI data visibility ac oss t ai i g datasets a d model i puts a d outputs is the most impo ta t capability of thei DSPM solutio .Auditi g is B oke : Nea ly half of tech leade s (46.7%) decla e auditi g alo e is ot e ough a d that eal-time eside cy e fo ceme t is equi ed.I co siste t Policies C eate Complexity: 45.3% of espo de ts cited co siste t secu ity policies ac oss all cloud e vi o me ts as a co ce , oti g that dispa ate co t ols c eate compou di g sove eig ty complexity.Shadow Data Pe sists: 40.9% of espo de ts claim AI t ai i g wo kflows a e the leadi g sou ce of shadow data.
The esea ch highlights a clea shift i p io ities as AI adoptio scales: O ga izatio s a e focusi g o capabilities that delive deep visibility i to data ecosystems a d t a slate that visibility i to p otectio .
Skyhigh Secu ity’s co ve ged Secu ity Se vice Edge (SSE) po tfolio is u iquely positio ed to solve these complex ma ket challe ges by u iti g active DSPM with eal-time i li e e fo ceme t, e abli g use s to:
Stop AI Data Leaks I li e : Meeti g the c itical visibility dema ds of ove half of espo de ts, Skyhigh Secu ity p ovides e te p ise-g ade discove y a d eal-time i li e co t ols to automatically mo ito model i puts a d outputs, mitigate p ompt i jectio isks, a d safegua d se sitive i fo matio .Defeat Sove eig ty Complexity : To add ess the top a chitectu al co st ai t ide tified i the epo t, Skyhigh e ables o ga izatio s to mai tai st ict e c yptio key ow e ship a d localized data eside cy without sac ifici g edge pe fo ma ce.U ify Policy E fo ceme t Ac oss Hyb id E vi o me ts : Skyhigh elimi ates compou di g sove eig ty complexity by delive i g a si gle, data-fi st policy e gi e that sta da dizes data p otectio ac oss dist ibuted cloud, web, SaaS, a d o -p emises footp i ts.
Dow load the full epo t, “Leve agi g DSPM a d A tificial I tellige ce to Solve Data Secu ity Challe ges” fo mo e i fo matio .
Raleigh Gould | E te p ise Ma ageme t Associates gould@e te p isema ageme t.com
